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Mack the Knife |
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Written: 1928/1952 |
Music by: Kurt Weill |
German Words by: Berthold Brecht |
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The version of this song that is included in the Cafe Songbook Catalog of The Great American Songbook is the one with English language lyrics by Marc Blitzstein completed in 1952 for the Brandeis University production of The Threepenny Opera (Sanders, p. 400), which preceeded the 1954 New York production. (This section is currently in preparation.) |
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 Ronald Sanders, The Days Grow Short: The Life and Music of Kurt Weill, New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1980 (paperback Ed. Silman-James Press, September 1991) |
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