KURT WEILL: A LIFE IN PICTURES AND DOCUMENTS

DAVID FARNETH, Elmar Juchem, Dave Stein &.

ISBN 10: 050097487X / ISBN 13: 9780500974872

Published by Thames & Hudson, London,, 2000

About this Item

First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 4to.pp. 312. Original publisher's quarter cloth binding in fawn, lettered black at spine, with black sides and T&H logo embossed. Dust jacket with moody black-and-white photographs of Kurt Weill, lettered white on brown. Copious black and white photographs, cartoon drawings and sketches illustrate the text. Biography. Music. ISBN:050097487X. Fine in fine dust jacket.

Seller Inventory # C102160

Bibliographic Details

• Title: KURT WEILL: A LIFE IN PICTURES AND DOCUMENTS
• Publisher: Thames & Hudson, London,
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 050097487X
• ISBN 13: 9780500974872
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Seller catalogs:
  • Music
  • Theatre
  • Biography

About this title

Synopsis

The legendary iconoclast Kurt Weill has become a figure central to the cultural life of the twentieth century. An artist known for his relentless exploration of the boundary between high and low art, Weill left behind a treasury of classical music and unforgettable songs, Mack the Knife and Alabama Song, among them. Working with Bertolt Brecht and others, he used musicals such as The Threepenny Opera to address the most serious of social and political issues. In a lavish style suitable to the subject, Kurt Weill's life is explored with in-depth scholarship and more than 900 photographs, many in full-color, from archives in five different countries, to form the essential addition to any theater or music lover's collection.

About the Author

David Farneth is the editor of Lenya: The Legend, also published by The Overlook Press. He is Director of the Weill-Lenya Research Center in New York, Archivist of the Kurt Weill Edition, and editor of the Kurt Weill Newsletter. He is also an editor of the Music Library Association Index and Bibliography Series and has written articles for The New Grove Dictionary of American Music, Pipers Enzyklopadie des Musiktheaters, and reviews for Tempo and Notes. He lives in New York City.