Kurt Weill, songwriter: reference sources (web and print); selected songs; recordings, videos; miscellany

• Lost in the Stars
• Mack the Knife
• My Ship
• September Song
• Speak Low
• This Is New

Research Resources: Kurt Weill

• Amazon (publications, recordings, videos, sheet music, etc.)
• American Composers Orchestra (essay on Weill's American identity)
• DBOPM (Database Of Popular Music: song list, awards, hit songs, co-writers)
• Discogs.com (songwriting and arranging credits)
• Indiana University Sheet Music Collection (In Harmony): Kurt Weill
• Internet Broadway Database (IBDB) (Broadway productions and song credits)
• Internet Movie Database (brief biography, filmography, movie song credits)
• iTunes (biography plus recordings and albums featuring Kurt Weill songs)
• Kurt Weill in the Milken Archive of Jewish Music (biography, compositions, videos and articles)
• New York Public Library (catalog entries for books, personal papers, recordings, scores, etc.)
• The New York Times (articles about or related to the songwriter)
• NPRmusic.org (Kurt Weill artist page: interviews, features and/or performances archived at NPR Music)
• PBS.org (brief biography and list of works)
• Songwriters Hall of Fame (biography and song list)
• The Kurt Weill Foundation for Music (pages on Weill, Lotte Lenya, current news, performance calendar, Kurt Weill Newsletter, etc.)
• Wikipedia (Kurt Weill article)
• Alec Wilder, American Popular Song: The Great Innovators, 1900-1950, New York: Oxford University Press, 1972 -- commentary on # songs (scattered comments on Weill, with "Speak Low" being the only song with any extended comment, pp. 511-512).
• ASCAP Biographical Dictionary, New York: American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, Cattell/Bowker, Fourth edition, 1980 (dates, collaborators, shows/movies, songs, etc., entry pp. 533-544).
• David Drew. Kurt Weill: A Handbook. Berkeley, Univ. of California Press, 1987.
• David Ewen. American Songwriters, An H. W. Wilson Biographical Dictionary. New York: The H. W. Wilson Co., 1987 (includes 146 bios of composers and lyricists). -- a wide selection of used copies is available at abebooks.com (entry pp. 426-431).
• The New Orpheus: Essays on Kurt Weill. Kim H. Kowalke, Ed., New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1990.
• Philip Furia, The Poets of Tin Pan Alley: A History of America's Great Lyricists,
  New York: Oxford University Press, 1990 (scattered comments on Weill, especially his work with Ira Gershwin)
• Thomas S. Hischak. Word Crazy: Broadway Lyricists from Cohan to Sondheim. New York: Praeger, 1991 Several comments on Weill in relation to the lyrics written for his music).
• Ronald Sanders. The Days Grow Short: The Life and Music of Kurt Weill. New York: Holt, Rhinehart and Winston, 1980 (paper-bound edition, 1991).
• Allen Forte, The American Popular Ballad of the Golden Era, 1924-1950, Princeton, Princeton Univ. Press, 1995 (multiple and extended commentaries on Weill's music).
• William G. Hyland. The Song is Ended: Songwriters and American Music, 1900-1950. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995 (several comments on Weill).
• Lotta Lenya and Kurt Weill. Speak Low (When You Speak Love): The Letters of Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenya. Berkeley, Univ. of California Press, 1997.
• Warren W. Vaché, The Unsung Songwriters: America's Masters of Melody, The Scarecrow Press, 2000 (brief Bio.; entry pp. 531-533).
• William Zinsser. Easy to Remember The Great American Songwriters and Their Songs. Jaffrey, New Hampshire: David R. Godine, 2001 (chapter on Weill with Ira Gershwin and with Vernon Duke).
• Foster Hirsch, Kurt Weill on Stage: From Berlin to Broadway. New York: Knoph, 2002 (paper-bound edition, Limelight Editions, 2004).
• Philip Furia and Michael Lasser, America's Songs: The Stories Behind the Songs of Broadway, Hollywood, and Tin Pan Alley, New York: Routledge, 2006 (ebtry for the Weill work "September Song.").
• Thomas S. Hischak. The Oxford Companion to the American Musical: Theatre, Film, and Television. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008 (entry, p. 786).
• Ethan Mordden, Love Song: Love Song: The Lives of Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenya, New York: St. Martins Press, 2012.

• photo of Kurt Weill in Wein (1932): Wikipedia Commons / German Federal Archive

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