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Article: Weill without Brecht. (On Music).
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- The New Leader
- Article date:
- July 1, 2002
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AS READERS of this column must by now have figured out, my aim has been to introduce classical music lovers either to insufficiently known modern composers or to the deserving less popular works of better known ones. This time around my focus is on the early European operatic works of Kurt Weill (1900-50)--other than the collaborations with Bertolt Brecht--that are available on CD.
Weill had a sophisticated taste in librettists that he dared indulge because he was a favorite pupil of Ferruccio Busoni, and because of several impressive non-operatic works he had already created. Georg Kaiser, the leading expressionist playwright of the day, is a case in point. ...