Matthias Juchem News
German opera singer
- tenor
- Germany
- opera singer
Last update
2024-04-23
Refresh
2017-11-07 09:03:00
Kurt Weill's bite is back as a lost song resurfaces
[…] concluded.Until now. It has just turned up unexpectedly in the archive of the Volksbühne actress Gerda Schaefer and will soon be published at last.And it's a whopper. The New York Times has a performance of it to hear, from the Kurt Weill Foundation - please pop over and listen to this. Its bite is powerful with its Bach [sorry]."Although the discovery is small in terms of the song’s length, it is truly sensational," commented musicologist Elmar Juchem, Managing Editor of the Kurt Weill Edition, who was able to identify Weill's manuscript while conducting archival work in Berlin. "Nobody believed that something completely unknown by Weill could still surface, let alone from his Berlin heyday." Juchem came across the song in the archives of the department of theater studies at the Freie Universität Berlin. While examining documents related to Weill's music for the play Happy End (1929), he inquired whether the university held any […]
No more?
Every day soclassiq looks for new articles, videos, concerts and so on about classical music and opera, their artists, venues, orchestras...
Matthias Juchem ? We have not gathered a lot of content on this topic yet but we continue to search.
or
- timeline: Lyrical singers (Europe).
- Indexes (by alphabetical order): J...