{"id":1308,"date":"2019-07-09T14:16:04","date_gmt":"2019-07-09T18:16:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esm4.esm.rochester.edu\/sibley\/?page_id=1308"},"modified":"2024-04-19T09:37:57","modified_gmt":"2024-04-19T13:37:57","slug":"weill","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/esm4.esm.rochester.edu\/sibley\/specialcollections\/findingaids\/weill\/","title":{"rendered":"UNIVERSAL EDITION-KURT WEILL ARCHIVES"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_column_text]SC 1998.4<\/p>\n<p>Ruth T. Watanabe Special Collections<br \/>\nSibley Music Library<br \/>\nEastman School of Music<br \/>\nUniversity of Rochester<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/esm4.esm.rochester.edu\/sibley\/files\/Kurt-Weill-Universal-Edition-Manuscripts.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kurt Weill\/Universal-Edition Manuscripts<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"Contents\"><\/a><a name=\"Contents\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>CONTENTS<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"#Descrip\">Description of Collection<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#Series\">Description of Series<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#Inventory\">Inventory<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><strong><a href=\"#S1\">Series 1: Manuscripts<\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"#S2\">Series 2: Microfilms<\/a> <\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"Descrip\" name=\"Descrip\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>DESCRIPTION OF COLLECTION<\/h3>\n<p>Location: M1B 3,2-3<br \/>\n3 feet<\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;5561&#8243; img_size=&#8221;medium&#8221; add_caption=&#8221;yes&#8221; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221; style=&#8221;vc_box_outline&#8221; onclick=&#8221;link_image&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1713533843083{margin-bottom: -10px !important;}&#8221;][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h4>Biographical Sketch<\/h4>\n<p>Kurt Weill (1900-1950) is best known as a composer of operas, including the famous Threepenny Opera, a modern treatment of the eighteenth-century Beggar&#8217;s Opera. Weill studied with Bing, Humperdinck and Busoni and was much influenced by the early twentieth-century theater and social criticism. Upon the victory of the Nazi party in Germany, Weill and his wife fled the country, arriving first in England and ultimately settling in the United States. Weill was a particularly successful assimilator of diverse idioms, including American popular song and jazz.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>Provenance<\/h4>\n<p>The manuscripts comprising this collection have been placed on deposit with the Sibley Music Library by Universal Edition (Vienna).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>Scope and Content<\/h4>\n<p>The collection includes many of Weill&#8217;s most important works for musical theater, including scores for his most famous work, Die Dreigroschenoper. It also includes some chamber and solo works. It constitutes a very important resource for the study of Weill&#8217;s music, especially textual studies, owing to the fact that several of the works exist in more than one version and with annotations by Weill and major interpreters.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>Associations<\/h4>\n<p>The scrapbook has been microfilmed, see Film 897. Watanbe Special Collections holds several local history scrapbooks relating to musical subjects. It also maintains a file of local ephemera relating to music from ca.1850 on.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>Restrictions and Use<\/h4>\n<p>Copyright restrictions apply. Materials are generally available for study for performance and scholarship.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a id=\"Series\" name=\"Series\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>DESCRIPTION OF SERIES<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"#S1\">Series 1: Manuscripts<\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The series includes holograph manuscripts of the works of Kurt Weill. The manuscripts are arranged in numerical order according to the Universal Edition inventory number.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"#S2\">Series 2: Microfilms<\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">This series contains microfilm copies of many of the manuscripts in the Universal\/Weill Archive.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a id=\"Inventory\" name=\"Inventory\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>INVENTORY<\/h3>\n<p><strong id=\"S1\">Series 1: Manuscripts<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Box 1<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td nowrap=\"nowrap\"><strong>Folder 1<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny.<br \/>\nUE 544. Full score.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td nowrap=\"nowrap\"><strong>Folder 2<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny.<br \/>\nUE 551. Libretto (original version).<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td nowrap=\"nowrap\"><strong>Folder 3<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny.<br \/>\nUE 560. Libretto (new version).<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td nowrap=\"nowrap\"><strong>Folder 4<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Berlin im Licht.<br \/>\nWS Weill 22. Military Band version.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Box 2<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td nowrap=\"nowrap\"><strong>Folder 1<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Burgschaft.<br \/>\nUE 600. Full score.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td nowrap=\"nowrap\"><strong>Folder 2<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Burgschaft.<br \/>\nUE 601. Piano reduction.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td nowrap=\"nowrap\"><strong>Folder 3<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Burgschaft.<br \/>\ncf. UE 600. New Scene.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Box 3<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td nowrap=\"nowrap\"><strong>Folder 1<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Dreigroschenoper.<br \/>\nNo. UE #. Full score.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td nowrap=\"nowrap\"><strong>Folder 2<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Dreigroschenoper.<br \/>\nUE 704. Piano reducation.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td nowrap=\"nowrap\"><strong>Folder 3<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Dreigroschenoper: Kanonensong.<br \/>\nUE 580.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td nowrap=\"nowrap\"><strong>Folder 4<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Dreigroschenoper. Libretto proofs.<br \/>\nUE 549.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td nowrap=\"nowrap\"><strong>Folder 5<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Dreigroschenoper. Tangoballade.<br \/>\nUE 555.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td nowrap=\"nowrap\"><strong>Folder 6<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Dreigroschenoper: libretto typescript.<br \/>\nUE 548.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td nowrap=\"nowrap\"><strong>Folder 7<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Frauentanz.<br \/>\nUE 603. Full score.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td nowrap=\"nowrap\"><strong>Folder 8<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Frauentanz.<br \/>\nUE 606. Full score.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td nowrap=\"nowrap\"><strong>Folder 9<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Happy End. Surabaya Johnny.<br \/>\nUE 554.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td nowrap=\"nowrap\"><strong>Folder 10<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Happy End. Bilbao-song.<br \/>\nUE 802.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Box 4<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td nowrap=\"nowrap\"><strong>Folder 1<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Jasager.<br \/>\nUE 541. Full score.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td nowrap=\"nowrap\"><strong>Folder 2<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Jasager.<br \/>\nUE 605. Piano reduction.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td nowrap=\"nowrap\"><strong>Folder 3<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Jasager. Neue Fassung.<br \/>\nWS Weill 37.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td nowrap=\"nowrap\"><\/td>\n<td>Jasager. Personenverzeichnis<br \/>\nWS Weill 37.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td nowrap=\"nowrap\"><strong>Folder 4<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Kleine Dreigroschenmusik.<br \/>\nUE 597. Full score.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td nowrap=\"nowrap\"><strong>Folder 5<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Lied von den braunen Inseln.<br \/>\nUE 602. Piano &amp; voice.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td nowrap=\"nowrap\"><strong>Folder 6<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Lindberghflug.<br \/>\nWS Weill 1. Full score.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td nowrap=\"nowrap\"><strong>Folder 7<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Lindberghflug.<br \/>\nUE 598. Full score.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td nowrap=\"nowrap\"><strong>Folder 8<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Lindberghflug.<br \/>\nUE 703. Piano reduction.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td nowrap=\"nowrap\"><strong>Folder 9<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Lindberghflug. Vorstellung des Fligers Lindbergh.<br \/>\nUE 553.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Box 5<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td nowrap=\"nowrap\"><strong>Folder 1<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Mahagonny Songspiel. Rolle der Bessie.<br \/>\nUE Q 475.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td nowrap=\"nowrap\"><strong>Folder 2<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Muschel von Margate.<br \/>\nUE 552. Voice and piano.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td nowrap=\"nowrap\"><strong>Folder 3<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Neue Orpheus.<br \/>\nNo UE number. Full score.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td nowrap=\"nowrap\"><strong>Folder 4<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Protagonist.<br \/>\nNo UE number. Full score, 307 pp.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td nowrap=\"nowrap\"><strong>Folder 5<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Protagonist.<br \/>\nUE 540. Piano reduction.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td nowrap=\"nowrap\"><strong>Folder 6<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Quodlibet.<br \/>\nUE 545. Full score.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Box 6<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td nowrap=\"nowrap\"><strong>Folder 1<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Royal Palace. Libretto.<br \/>\nUE 558.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td nowrap=\"nowrap\"><strong>Folder 2<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Royal Palace.<br \/>\nUE 557. Piano reduction.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td nowrap=\"nowrap\"><strong>Folder 3<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Silbersee.<br \/>\nUE 596. Full score.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td nowrap=\"nowrap\"><strong>Folder 4<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Silbersee: final draft.<br \/>\nWS Weill 44. Full score.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td nowrap=\"nowrap\"><strong>Folder 5<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Silbersee.<br \/>\nUE 559. Piano Reduction.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td nowrap=\"nowrap\"><strong>Folder 6<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Silbersee. Ouverture (sketch), Der B\u00e4kker b\u00e4ckt uns Morgenbrot (fragment)<br \/>\nWS Weill 43, 44.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Box 7<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td nowrap=\"nowrap\"><strong>Folder 1<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>String Quartet.<br \/>\nUE 537. Full score.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td nowrap=\"nowrap\"><strong>Folder 2<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Violin Concerto.<br \/>\nNo UE number. Full score.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td nowrap=\"nowrap\"><strong>Folder 3<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Violin Concerto.<br \/>\nUE 542. Piano reduction.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td nowrap=\"nowrap\"><strong>Folder 4<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Zar l\u00e4sst sich photographiere<br \/>\nUE 599. Full score.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td nowrap=\"nowrap\"><strong>Folder 6<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Zu Potsdam unter den Eichen.<br \/>\nUE 543. Choral score.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong id=\"S2\">Series 2: Microfilms<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Box 8<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td nowrap=\"nowrap\"><strong>Folder 1<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">UE 544 Partitur; UE 551 Textbuch, urfassung; UE 560 Textbuch, neue Fassung, 3. Act; UE Q 475 Mahogonny Songspiel Rolle der Bessie.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td nowrap=\"nowrap\"><strong>Folder 2<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Burgschaft.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">UE 600 Partitur.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td nowrap=\"nowrap\"><strong>Folder 3<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Burgschaft.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">UE 601 klavierauszug E. Stein; UE none Neue Szene.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td nowrap=\"nowrap\"><strong>Folder 4<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Dreigroschenoper.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Partitur; UE 704 klavierauszug; UE 548 textbuch; UE 549 libretto proofs; UE 580 kanonensong; UE 555 tangoballade &amp; Programmzettel.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td nowrap=\"nowrap\"><strong>Folder 5<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Happy End, etc.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Happy End: UE 802 bilbao-Song; UE 554 Surabaya Johnny; Der Jasager: UE 541 partitur; UE 605 klavierauszug; WE Weill 37 neue fassung; WS Weill 37 personenverzeichnis.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td nowrap=\"nowrap\"><strong>Folder 6<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Protagonist, etc.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Protagonist: UE none partitur; UE 540 klavierauszug (Stein\/KW annotations); royal Palace: UE 558 textbuch (KW annotations); UE 557 klavierauszug (KW annotations).<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td nowrap=\"nowrap\"><strong>Folder 7<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Silbersee.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Silbersee: UE 596 partitur; UE 559 klavierauszug (Stein\/KW annotations); WE Weill 43 Der Bakker backt uns Morgenbrot; WS Weill 43 fragment folgt K1A; WS Weill 44 partitur, final draft.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td nowrap=\"nowrap\"><strong>Folder 8<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Zar l\u00e4sst sich fotographieren.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">UE 599 partitur.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td nowrap=\"nowrap\"><strong>Folder 9<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Berlin im Licht, etc.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Berlin im Licht WS Weill 22 band version; Frauentanz UE 603 partitur; UE 606 partitur; Kleine Dreigr. 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