KWE - Introductory Essays, Critical Reports, and Corrigenda

The introductory essay, written by the volume editor, offers a detailed history of the work from inception through composition, rehearsal, and first performance, along with further production history, while addressing larger editorial and performance issues.

The Critical Report spells out the editoral decisions made in the course of preparing the score and provides thorough descriptions of source material.

Corrigenda files list passages in the scores where errors have been discovered after publication--sometimes revealed by new source evidence--and supply corrections.

 

Stage Works

Die Dreigroschenoper, edited by Stephen Hinton and Edward Harsh (Series I, Volume 5)

Introductory essay
Critical Report
Corrigenda

The Firebrand of Florence, edited by Joel Galand (Series I, Volume 18)

Introductory essay
Critical Report

Johnny Johnson, edited by Tim Carter (Series I, Volume 13)

Introductory essay
Critical Report
Corrigendum

Lady in the Dark, edited by bruce d. mcclung and Elmar Juchem (Series I, Volume 16)

Introductory essay
Critical Report

Mahagonny Songspiel, edited by Giselher Schubert (Series I, Volume 3)

Introductory essay
Critical Report
Corrigenda

Der Protagonist, edited by Gunther Diehl and Jürgen Selk (Series I, Volume 1)

Introductory essay
Critical Report

Zaubernacht, edited by Elmar Juchem and Andrew Kuster (Series I, Volume 0)

Introductory essay
Critical Report
Corrigenda

Concert Works

Chamber Music, edited by Wolfgang Rathert and Jürgen Selk (Series II, Volume 1)
(Contains String Quartet in B Minor, String Quartet no. 1, op. 8; Discarded Movements from String Quartet op. 8; Sonata for Violoncello and Piano; Frauentanz op. 10; "Ick sitze da--un esse Klops")

Introductory essay
Critical Report

Music with Solo Violin, edited by Andreas Eichhorn (Series II, Volume 2)
(Contains Concerto for Violin and Wind Orchestra op. 12, Der neue Orpheus op. 16)

Introductory essay
Critical Report
Corrigenda

Facsimile Volumes

Die Dreigroschenoper: A Facsimile of the Holograph Full Score, edited by Edward Harsh (Series IV, Volume 1)

"Die Dreigroschenoper: The 1928 Full Score" by Stephen Hinton
"The Threepenny Opera: The Score Adapted" by Kim H. Kowalke
"The Score as Artifact" by David Farneth
"Afterword as Introduction to the Kurt Weill Edition" by David Drew

Popular Adaptations 1927-1950, edited by Charles Hamm, Elmar Juchem, and Kim H. Kowalke (Series IV, Volume 2)

Introduction by Kim H. Kowalke and Stephen Hinton
"Popular Adaptations of Weill's Music for Stage and Screen, 1927-1950" by Charles Hamm