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Kurt Weill was a German composer and lyricist. He was born Kurt Julian Weill on March 2, 1900, in Dessau, Germany. He was the son of a cantor and music teacher. Weill studied music at the Stern Conservatory in Berlin and the Hochschule für Musik in Berlin. He began his career as a composer of operas and operettas. In 1927, he met the American playwright Bertolt Brecht.