Canon
Where to start with Weill
Essential works to know this composer by — spread across their styles-
StageDie Dreigroschenoper — Opera
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OrchestralConcerto, for violin and wind orchestra, op. 12
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VocalDas Berliner Requiem
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ChamberCello Sonata
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StageDie sieben Todsünden — Ballet
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OrchestralSymphony no. 1, "Berliner Symphonie"
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Vocal4 Walt Whitman Songs
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Vocal6 Songs
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StageAufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny — Opera
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OrchestralAufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny — Suite from the opera
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VocalBaa M'nucha
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VocalBerlin im Licht
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OrchestralBerlin im Licht, march for military band
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VocalBuddy on the Nightshift
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VocalComplainte de la Seine
Listening guide
Hand-curated paths into Weill's catalogueMost Popular
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The Threepenny Opera — Mack the Knife
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Alabama Song (with Brecht)
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September Song
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Mack the Knife (Die Moritat von Mackie Messer)
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Speak Low
Most Acclaimed
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Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny (opera)
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The Threepenny Opera (complete)
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Street Scene (American opera)
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Violin Concerto
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Symphony No. 2
Most Weird
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Violin Concerto Op. 12atonal, written at 24 — nothing like the cabaret Weill everyone knows; Busoni was his teacher
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Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonnya city built entirely on money and pleasure destroys itself; premiered 1930 with Nazis storming the theater
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Der Silbersee (Silver Lake)spoken play with songs — premiered simultaneously in 3 cities 3 weeks before Hitler took power; all three productions were closed by the Nazis
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The Seven Deadly Sinsballet with song — a woman named Anna is split into two: a practical self and a moral self; they argue while she earns money
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Symphony No. 2neo-classical; written in Paris after fleeing Germany; very different from the Brecht operas
Similar composers
Same era, overlapping styles — by genre & period affinityWorks 64
- Stage
- ● Die Dreigroschenoper — Opera
- ● Die sieben Todsünden — Ballet
- Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny — Opera
- Der Jasager — Opera
- Der Kuhhandel — Opera
- Der Lindberghflug
- Der Protagonist, op. 15 — Opera
- Der Silbersee — Opera
- Der Silbersee
- Der Weg der Verheissung — Opera
- Der Zar läst sich photographieren — Opera
- Down in the Valley — Opera
- Happy End — Musical
- Happy End — Opera
- Huckleberry Finn — Musical
- Knickerbocker Holiday — Musical
- Konjunktur, incidental music
- Lady in the Dark — Musical
- Lost in the Stars — Musical
- Love Life
- Marie Galante
- Marie Galante — Incidental music
- One Touch of Venus — Musical
- Railroads on Parade, pageant, "Fantasia on Rail Transport"
- Royal Palace, op. 17 — Opera
- Street Scene — Musical
- The Firebrand of Florence
- The River is Blue — Film score
- Ulysses Africanus — Musical
- Where Do We Go from Here? — Film score
- You and Me, film score
- Orchestral
- Concerto, for violin and wind orchestra, op. 12
- Symphony no. 1, "Berliner Symphonie"
- Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny — Suite from the opera
- Berlin im Licht, march for military band
- Symphony no. 2
- Vocal
- Das Berliner Requiem
- 4 Walt Whitman Songs
- 6 Songs
- Baa M'nucha
- Berlin im Licht
- Buddy on the Nightshift
- Complainte de la Seine
- Das Abschiedsbrief
- Das Stundenbuch — Song cycle
- Das schöne Kind
- Der neue Orpheus, op. 15 — Cantata
- Es Regnet, song for voice and piano
- Happy End: Surabaya Johnny; Die Dreigroschenoper: Die Moritat von Mackie Messer, for voice, piano and string quartet
- Havu l'venim
- Im Volkston, "Das Scheiden, ach das Scheiden"
- Je ne t'aime pas
- Mahagonny Songspiel, for soloists and orchestra
- Nanna's lied, "Meine Herren, mit siebzehn Jahren"
- Propaganda Songs
- Schickelgruber
- The Ballad of Magna Carta, for narrator, bass, chorus, and orchestra
- Und was bekam des Soldaten Weib?
- Vom tod im Wald, ballad for bass and 10 wind instruments, op. 23
- Wie lange noch?
- Youkali, tango habañera
- Zaubernacht, children's pantomime for soprano and chamber orchestra
- Zu Potsdam unter den Eichen, for male chorus
- Chamber
- Cello Sonata