Lenya L (4 results)

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XI, 371 S. u. Abb. auf Tafeln. OHln.

FIRST UK EDITION. Large 8vo. 10.5 x 7.25 inches. [x] + 554 + [1] pp. 0 Bound in original black cloth, gilt, in unclipped pictorial dust wrapper. Minor spotting of boards, but otherwise a very good clean copy. Illustrated by 64 pages of black and white photographic plates, including facsimiles and by text figures. Decorated by publisher's device on title page. The text of 193 selected letters between German composer, Kurt Weill (1900-50) and his wife, Austrian born actress, Lotte Lenya (1898-1981). Part I is letters translated from the German, 1924-38 and Part II, letters in the original English, 1941-50. Weill is known for his collaboration with Bertolt Brecht, resulting in Die Dreigrosschen Oper (The Threepenny Opera) of 1928. He fled Nazi Germany in 1933 and spent the rest of his life and career in the US, later joined by Lenya. Edited by Lys Symonette, German born Berta Weinschenk (1914-2005), pianist, choral singer and stage performer, who also fled Nazi Germany and later in the US became Kurt Weill's musical assistant; and by Kim H. Kowalke (b.1948), musicologist and Kurt Weill scholar. First published by the University of California Press, 1996. MUSIC LETTERS MUSIC GERMAN CORRESPONDENCE 20TH CENTURY ILLUSTRATED MUSIC.…

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