Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera, adapt. Blitzstein) - The Kurt Weill Foundation for Music
Description: Composer Marc Blitzstein is best known for his 1937 agitprop musical theater work, The Cradle Will Rock and his English adaptation of The Threepenny Opera.
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Marc Blitzstein – born in Philadelphia in 1905 – showed musical promise as a pianist at a young age. He began composing Lieder and short piano pieces in his teens, before going on to study composition at the Curtis Institute from 1924-1926, and then briefly in Europe with Nadia Boulanger and Arnold Schoenberg. He achieved overnight notoriety with his 1937 agitprop musical theater work, The Cradle Will Rock . His other well-known works include his opera Regina , The Airborne Symphony , and his English adapta
Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera, adapt. Blitzstein) - The Kurt Weill Foundation for Music