Kurt Weill (1900-1950)
"Mi Addir", Jewish wedding song (1913) Weill Links"Es blühen zwei flammende Rosen", song fragment (1913)
"Ich weiss wofür" (Guido von Güllhausen), voice and piano (1914)
"Reiterlied" (Hermann Löns), voice and piano (1914)
"Gebet" (Emanuel Geibel), voice and piano (1915)
"Sehnsucht" (Joseph, Freiherr von Eichendorff), voice and piano (1916)
Ofrah's Lieder (Jehuda Halevi), A cycle of five songs, voice and piano (1916)
Zriny, opera after the play by Karl Theodor Körner (1916) - lost
"Im Volkston" (Arno Holz), voice and piano (1916)
"Volkslied" (Anna Ritter), voice and piano (1917)
"Das schöne Kind" (author unknown), voice and piano (1917)
Intermezzo, piano (1917)
"Maikaterlied" and "Abendlied" (Otto Julius Bierbaum), voice and piano (1918)
String Quartet in B Minor (1918)
Orchestra Suite in E major (1919)
Die Weise von Liebe und Tod des Cornets Christoph Rilke, symphonic poem (1919) - manuscript lost
"Weberlied" (Gerhart Hauptmann), voice and piano (1920)
"Schilflieder" (Nikolaus Lenau) (1919; may have been composed earlier)
Ninon von Lenclos, opera after the play by Ernst Hardt (1919) - manuscript lost, probably unfinished
"Die stille Stadt" (Richard Dehmel), voice and piano (1919)
Sulamith, "Chorfantasie" for soprano, chorus and orchestra (1920) - incomplete draft survives
Sonata for Cello and Piano (1919-20)
Langsamer Fox und "Algi-Song", two pieces: (1) piano solo, (2) a parodic cabaret number (1921)
Symphony No. 1 (1921)
[Polka], for piano (1921) - unfinished
"Die Bekehrte" (Goethe), voice and piano (1921)
Rilkelieder (Rainer Maria Rilke), voice and piano (1921)
Psalm VIII, chorus (1922) - incomplete or partly missing
Zaubernacht, ballet-pantomime with scenario by Vladimir Boritsch (1922)
Divertimento, small orchestra with men's chorus (1922)
Fantasia, Passacaglia und Hymnus für Orchester, op. 6 [Sometimes known as Sinfonia sacra] (1922)
Quodlibet, op. 9, suite for orchestra from the pantomime Zaubernacht (1923)
String Quartet No. 1, op. 8 (1923)
Recordare, op. 11 (Lamentations V) (1923)
Frauentanz: sieben Gedichte des Mittelalters for soprano, fl, va, cl, hn and bsn, op. 10 (1923)
[Pantomime], scenario by Georg Kaiser (1923) - unfinished
Das Stundenbuch (Rainer Maria Rilke), cycle of 6 songs for baritone and orch (1923-25) - partly lost
Concerto for Violin and Wind Orchestra, op. 12 (1924)
"Klops-Lied" (Jean de Bourgois [pseudonym]) (1924)
Der Protagonist, op.15, opera in one act, text by Georg Kaiser (1924-25)
Der Neue Orpheus, cantata for soprano, solo violin and orchestra op.16 (text by Yvan Goll) (1924-25)
Royal Palace op.17, opera in one act, text by Iwan (Yvan) Goll (1924-25)
Herzog Theodor von Gothland (Christian Dietrich Grabbe), incidental music (1926) - largely lost
Na und? (Felix Joachimson), two-act comic opera (1927) - unperformed; only sketches survive
Mahagonny (Songspiel) (Bertolt Brecht) (1927)
Gustav III (August Strindberg), incidental music (1927)
“Vom Tod im Wald" (Bertolt Brecht), voice and orch (1927)
Der Zar lässt sich photographieren op.21, opera in one act, text by Georg Kaiser (1927)
Leben Eduards des Zweiten von England (Brecht), incidental music (1928) - Fragment survives
Konjunktur (Leo Lania), incidental music (1928) - partly missing
Katalaunische Schlacht (Arnolt Bronnen), incidental music (1928) - manuscript missing
Die Dreigroschenoper, or the Threepenny Opera (Bertolt Brecht) (1928)
Kleine Dreigroschenmusik (Little Threepenny Music), Suite for wind orchestra (1928)
Berlin im Licht (Weill) Song, march for military band (wind ensemble) or voice and piano (1928)
Petroleuminseln (Leon Feuchtwanger), songs and possibly incidental music (1928) - partly missing
Das Berliner Requiem (Berlin Requiem), cantata for 3 male voices and winds (Bertolt Brecht) (1928)
Der Lindberghflug (first version), cantata for soloists, chorus and orchestra (1929)
[Music by Weill and Paul Hindemith and lyrics by Bertolt Brecht]
Happy End (Elisabeth Hauptmann and Bertolt Brecht) (1929)
Der Lindberghflug (second version), cantata for tenor, baritone, and bass soloists, chorus and orchestra (1929)
[Music entirely by Weill and lyrics by Bertolt Brecht]
"Die Legende vom toten Soldaten" (1929)
Zu Potsdam unter den Eichen, chorus or voice and piano (Bertolt Brecht) (1928)
Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny, or Rise & Fall of the City of Mahagonny (Brecht) (1927-30)
Sieben Stücke nach der Dreigroschenoper, arr. for violin and piano by Stefan Frenkel (1930)
Der Jasager (Elisabeth Hauptmann and Bertolt Brecht) (1930)
Mann ist Mann (Bertolt Brecht), incidental music (1931)
Premiere of Die Dreigroschenoper film directed by G.W. Pabst (19 February 1931)
Die Bürgschaft, or The Pledge (Caspar Neher) (1930-31)
Der Silbersee, or Silver Lake (1932-33)
Die sieben Todsünden, or The Seven Deadly Sins, ballet chanté for voices and orch (Brecht) (1933)
"Es regnet" (Jean Cocteau?), voice and piano (1933)
"Der Abschiedsbrief"(Erich Kästner), voice and piano (1933)
La grand complainte de Fantômas (Robert Desnos) (1933) - Largely missing
"Complainte de la Seine" and "Je ne t'aime pas" (Maurice Magre) (1934)
Symphony No. 2 (1933-34)
Der Kuhhandel (Robert Vambery) (1934; rev. 1935 as “A Kingdom for a Cow”)
Marie galante, voices and small orchestra (book and lyrics by Jacques Deval) (1934)
"Youkali"(Roger Fernay) (1935)
Der Kuhhandel, or My Kingdom for a Cow (Robert Vambery) (1935)
Der Weg der Verheissung (Franz Werfel) (1934-35; rev. 1937 as “The Eternal Road)
High Wind in Jamaica, two songs, without texts (1936)
"The Fräulein and the Little Son of the Rich" (Robert Graham) (1936)
Johnny Johnson (Paul Green) (1936)
The Eternal Road (Desmond Carter) (1937)
The River is Blue (film title was changed to “Castles in Spain”, to “Blockade”), film score (1937)
[Weill's score was not used]
"Tu me démolis" and "Pauv' Madam' Peachum!" (Yvette Guilbert) - the first is lost (1937)
Albumblatt für Erika, unpub and unperformed piano arr. from The Eternal Road (1937)
The Common Glory (Paul Green) (1937) - unfinished
Two Folksongs of the New Palestine, arranged for voice and piano (1938)
Davy Crockett (H.R. Hays and Kurt Weill) (1938) - unfinished
[The Opera from Mannheim] (E.Y. Harburg) (1938) - unfinished and lost
You and Me (lyrics by Sam Coslow and Johnny Burke), film score (1937-1938)
Knickerbocker Holiday (Maxwell Anderson) (1937)
[Songs of Discovery] (author unknown), two songs (1939) - incomplete, partly missing
Railroads on Parade (Edward Hungerford) (1938)
Ulysses Africanus (M. Anderson) - unfinished; some songs later adapted & incorporated into Lost in the Stars
Madam, Will You Walk? (Sidney Howard), incidental music (1939)
"Nannas Lied" (Bertolt Brecht) (1939)
"Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" (Robert Frost) (1939) - manuscript missing
Two on an Island, incidental music (Elmer Rice) (1939) - no music survives
Ballad of Magna Carta, cantata for narrator, bass soloists, chorus and orch (Anderson) (1940)
Lady in the Dark (Moss Hart and Ira Gershwin) (1940)
Fun to be Free Pageant (1941)
Walt Whitman Songs (4) (1942-47)
Your Navy (Maxwell Anderson), radio program, incidental music (1942)
Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory: "Battle Hymn of the Republic," "The Star Spangled Banner," "America," "Beat! Beat! Drums!"
[arr. by Weill for narrator, chorus, and orchestra] (1942)
And what was sent to the Soldier's Wife? (Und was bekam des Soldaten Weib?), voice and piano (Brecht) (1942)
Propaganda Songs (Songs for the War Effort) (1942)
Russian War Relief (J.P. McEvoy) (1942)
We Will Never Die (Ben Hecht), pageant (1943)
One Touch of Venus (Ogden Nash) (1943)
"Wie lange noch?" (Mehring) (1944)
Salute to France, film score (1944)
Where Do We Go From Here? (Ira Gershwin), film score (1944)
The Firebrand of Florence (Ira Gershwin) (1945)
Down in the Valley (1945; rev.1948)
Kiddush, cantor, chorus and organ (1946)
A Flag is Born (Ben Hecht), incidental music (1946)
Four Walt Whitman Songs, voice and orchestra (or piano) (1947)
Street Scene (Elmer Rice and Langston Hughes) (1947)
Hatikvah Arrangement of the Israeli National Anthem, orchestra (1947)
Love Life (Alan Jay Lerner) (1947-48)
Lost in the Stars (Maxwell Anderson) (1949)
Huckleberry Finn (Maxwell Anderson) - ufinished; five songs completed
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