This is a book on the best known of the Weill-Brecht collaborations which explores the extent and significance of the composer's contribution. After a detailed

(Limelight). His best-known song is "Mack the Knife," with words by Bertolt Brecht, from The Threepenny Opera , first performed in Weimar Berlin in 1928. Five y

Considered the classic history of this important musical theater form. Traubner's book, first published in 1983, is still recognized as the key history of the p

Selected letters trace the relationship of the composer and actress, who were married for twenty-four years

When German-Jewish composer Kurt Weill arrived in the United States in 1935, he found a nation nothing like he imagined. This book tells the full story of Weill