Ernst Hermann Meyer
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Ernst Hermann Ludimar Meyer was a German composer and musicologist, noted for his expertise on seventeenth-century English chamber music.
Ernst Hermann Meyer
Kurt Weill
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Kurt Julian Weill was a German-born American composer active from the 1920s in his native country, and in his later years in the United States. He was a leading composer for the stage who was best kno
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…by the Nazi Party. There he eventually became a close friend of leftist composer Alan Bush, who was also in contact with exiled composers Eisler and Kurt Weill. In the UK, Meyer researched English chamber music of the 17th century, lectured for the Workers Educational Association and conducted the Labour Choral…
Bundesarchiv Bild 146 2005 0119, Kurt Weill
Berlin memorial plaque, Berlin-Hansaviertel, Germany
After their 1926 marriage, Weill and Lenya lived for a time in Georg Kaiser's apartment at Luisenplatz 3, Berlin-Charlottenburg; Kaiser preferred to live at his lake house.
Weill and Lenya at home in 1942