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Kurt Weill

Weill: Mahagonny-Songspiel

Libretto von: Bertolt Brecht

Herausgeber: Prof. Dr. Giselher Schubert

UE36629

Release info: Based on the critical text of the Kurt Weill Edition.

Type: Klavierauszug

Languages: Deutsch | Englisch

Format: 232 x 305 mm

ISBN: 9783702473693

Pages: 104

ISMN: 979-0-008-08698-4

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Kurt Weill’s Songspiel Mahagonny was commissioned by the music festival “Deutsche Kammermusik” in Baden-Baden and premiered in 1927. The poetry collection “Hauspostille” (domestic breviary) by Bertold Brecht served as a textual basis for the newly composed musical mini-drama that requires an ensemble of ten instruments and six singers. The audience’s reaction at the premiere was divided, yet everybody agreed on the quality and innovativeness of Weill’s music.
Brecht and Weill extended the Mahagonny-Songspiel to one of the most groundbreaking operas of the 20th century which was first performed in 1930: “Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny”.

This newly edited piano-vocal score follows the text of the critical edition, as published in the Kurt Weill Edition (Series I, Volume 3). The English translation was done by Michael Feingold.

Orchestra material is available on hire.

Contents

Vorwort

Preface

1. I. Mahagonny-Song / Kleiner Marsch

2. Alabama-Song / Marsch / Vivace

3. II. Mahagonny-Song / Vivace assai

4. Benares-Song / Sostenuto (Choral)

5. III. Mahagonny-Song / Vivace assai

6. Finale

Appendix: Erste Fassung des Finales (First Version of Finale)

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