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When did Kurt Weill start making music?
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Kurt Weill's first song “String Quartet, Op. 8” released on June 24, 1923.
Kurt Weill (1900-1950) was a German composer. After studying music with the distinguished composer Ferruccio Busoni, Weill joined a leftist theater group in Berlin in 1922, through which he met his future wife, the singer Lotte Lenya, and the playwright Bertolt Brecht, with whom he collaborated on several plays, most notably The Threepenny... Read More
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