Kurt Weill

Born: March 2, 1900, in Dessau, Germany

Died: April 3, 1950, in New York City

Musical Theatre: Street Scene, Love Life, Lady in the Dark, One Touch of Venus, The Threepenny Opera, Happy End, The Silver Lake, Lost in the Stars

Opera: The Protagonist, Royal Palace, The Czar has his Photograph Taken, The Pledge, The Seven Deadly Sins, A Kingdom for a Cow, The Eternal Road, Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny

Compositions: Sinfonia sacra, The Lindbergh Flight, Der neue Orpheus

Collaborators: Bertolt Brecht, Georg Kaiser, and singer/wife Lotte Lenya

Of note: Weill was a key figure in the development of modern forms of musical theatre.