Correspondence to Alma Mahler, 1937-1963.

Format:

Other

Author/Creator:

Weill, Kurt, 1900-1950.

Contributor:

Lenya, Lotte.

Language:

German

Physical Description:

4 items (4 leaves)

Contained In:

Mahler-Werfel Papers. Folder 1315.

Place of Publication:

1937-1963.

Language Note:

In German.

Biography/History:

Lotte Lenya (née Karoline Wilhelmine Blamauer; 1898-1981) was the wife of Kurt Weill; they were married in 1926, divorced around 1933, and remarried in 1936. Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenya both fled Germany in 1933, and divorced shortly thereafter. They reconciled in 1935, around the time that they departed together for New York City, where Weill then oversaw Max Reinhardt's production of Franz Werfel's bibilical drama The Eternal Road, for which Weill had written the score. In 1951, Lotte Lenya married the writer and editor George Davis; he died in 1957. In 1962 she married the artist Russell Detwiler.

Summary:

2 items are from Kurt Weill: 1 concerns the premiere of The Eternal Road and the play's financial prospects; 1 concerns the possibility of a conducting work for Harold Byrns, whom Alma Mahler had apparently recommended to Weill. The remaining 2 items are from Lotte Lenya after Weill's death and reflect a friendship between her and Alma.