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People In Music History
Weil, Kurt (1900-1950) German-born composer, pupil of Humperdinck and Busoni.
Using some jazz-based idoms, he had early success with The Threepenny Opera
(Ger., Die Dreigroschenoper), and with Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny,
both to texts by Brecht with satirical criticism of capitalist society.
Persecuted by the Nazis as a Jew and a composer of "decadent" music, he settled
in the United States in 1935. His American works include the folk-ish opera
Down in the Valley and music to various Broadway musical plays including Lost
in the Stars. Other works include the cantata Lindbergh's Flight (1929) and 2
symphonies.