Kurt Weill

German composer Kurt Weill (1900-1950).
Born in Dessau, Germany and died in New York. Active from the 1920s until his death. He was a leading composer for the stage, as well as writing a number of concert works. His best-known work is The Threepenny Opera (1928), a reworking of John Gay's The Beggar's Opera written in collaboration with Bertolt Brecht. He fled Nazi Germany in 1933.