쿠르트 바일

소개

쿠르트 바일(Kurt Weil, 1900년 ~ 1950년, 독일 데사우 출생)은 독일 출신 미국 작곡가이다. 베를린에서 훔퍼딩크, 부소니 등에게 사사하였다. 1926년 <중심인물>을 초연하고 혁신적인 오페라 작곡가로서 인정받게 되었다. 그 후 재즈의 영향을 받아 그 수법을 채용해서 대중적인 가극을 작곡하였다.

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 known for his fruitful collaborations with Bertolt Brecht. With Brecht, he wrote his best-known work, The Threepenny Opera, which includes the ballad "Mack the Knife". Weill held the ideal of writing music that served a socially useful purpose, Gebrauchsmusik. He also wrote several works for the concert hall and a number of works on Jewish themes. He fled Nazi Germany in 1933, arriving in the United States two years later. Settling in New York, he made a substantial contribution to American musical theater through works such as Lady in the Dark and Street Scene.