KURT WEILL
Aug 31, 2018 · 5 min read

Kurt Weill’s “The Threepenny Opera”, like any work of genius, has both permanence and universality. But it is also intrinsically the product of a particular time and place, the Weimar Republic: it gave a voice to the cynicism rampant in Germany following upon the defeat of 1918 and a decade of social turmoil; it cocked a snook at establishment values; and it blended a traditional language of compositional technique with accessible but acerbic borrowings from the…

