COMPOSER

Kurt Weill

1900 - 1950

Photo of Kurt Weill

Icon of person Kurt Weill

Kurt Julian Weill (; German: [vaɪl]; March 2, 1900 – April 3, 1950) was a German-born American composer active from the 1920s in his native country, and in his later years in the United States. He was a leading composer for the stage who was best known for his fruitful collaborations with Bertolt Brecht. With Brecht, he developed productions such as his best-known work, The Threepenny Opera, which included the ballad "Mack the Knife". Weill held the ideal of writing music that served a socially useful purpose, Gebrauchsmusik. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Kurt Weill is the 164th most popular composer (down from 145th in 2019), the 630th most popular biography from Germany (down from 552nd in 2019) and the 25th most popular German Composer.

Kurt Weill is most famous for his compositions of the Broadway musicals "Threepenny Opera" and "The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny."

Memorability Metrics

Loading...

Page views of Kurt Weill by language

Loading...

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Kurt Weill ranks 164 out of 1,451. Before him are César Cui, Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, Enrique Granados, Iannis Xenakis, Eduard Strauss, and Émile Jaques-Dalcroze. After him are Adrian Willaert, William Byrd, Karol Szymanowski, Hugo Wolf, Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, and Ryuichi Sakamoto.

Most Popular Composers in Wikipedia

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1900, Kurt Weill ranks 36. Before him are Ragnar Granit, Alfred Newman, Hans Fritzsche, James Hilton, Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, and Jan Oort. After him are Pak Hon-yong, Prince Aimone, Duke of Aosta, Karl Wolff, Arno Breker, Choe Yong-gon, and Chiune Sugihara. Among people deceased in 1950, Kurt Weill ranks 20. Before him are Karl Renner, George Minot, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Willis Carrier, Sri Aurobindo, and Émile Jaques-Dalcroze. After him are Ramana Maharshi, Emil Jannings, Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine, Karl Seitz, Roman Shukhevych, and Nicolai Hartmann.

Others Born in 1900

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Others Deceased in 1950

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Kurt Weill ranks 630 out of 7,253. Before him are Henri Nestlé (1814), Georg Wittig (1897), Elsa Einstein (1876), Franz Boas (1858), Ernst Mayr (1904), and Wolfgang Petersen (1941). After him are Walter Baade (1893), Adolf Galland (1912), Klaus Mann (1906), Helmut Newton (1920), Hans Jonas (1903), and Wilhelm Mohnke (1911).

Others born in Germany

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Among COMPOSERS In Germany

Among composers born in Germany, Kurt Weill ranks 25. Before him are Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714), Giacomo Meyerbeer (1791), Paul Hindemith (1895), Max Bruch (1838), Fanny Mendelssohn (1805), and Wilhelm Friedemann Bach (1710). After him are Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach (1732), Max Reger (1873), Louis Spohr (1784), Johann Adolph Hasse (1699), Michael Praetorius (1571), and Johann Ambrosius Bach (1645).

German born Composers

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous