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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 43. Chapters: Moses Mendelssohn, Kurt Weill, John William Friso, Prince of Orange, Max Muller, Hans von Ohain, Leopold I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, Gotthard Sachsenberg, Thomas Kretschmann, Princess Agnes of Anhalt-Dessau, Joachim Ernest, Prince of Anhalt, Maximilian von Weichs, Friedrich Wilhelm von Erdmannsdorff, Princess Maria Anna of Anhalt-Dessau, Dieter Hallervorden, Leopold III, Duke of Anhalt-Dessau, George III, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, William Gustav of Anhalt-Dessau, Hans Bethge, John George II, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, Louis I, Prince of Anhalt-Kothen, Annette Schlunz, Leopold IV, Duke of Anhalt, Wilhelm Muller, Heinrich Schwabe, Bernhardus Albinus, Adolf Trowitz, Prince George Bernhard of Anhalt-Dessau, Dorothea Maria of Anhalt, Frederick, Hereditary Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, Bernhard Cossmann, Benjamin Telem, Prince Moritz of Anhalt-Dessau, Carsten Herrmann-Pillath, Friedrich Grutzmacher, Wolfgang Schwenke, Prince Frederick Augustus of Anhalt-Dessau, Georg Albrecht of Saxe-Weissenfels, Count of Barby, Ludwig Philippson, Georg Steindorff, Karl Adolph von Basedow, Franz Woepcke, Hans Hickmann, Timo Hampf, Karl Elze, Herbert Tobias. Excerpt: Kurt Julian Weill (March 2, 1900 - April 3, 1950) was a German-Jewish composer, active from the 1920s, 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 developed productions such as his most well known work The Threepenny Opera, a Marxist critique of capitalism, which included the ballad "Mack the Knife." Weill was a socialist who held the ideal of writing music that served a socially useful purpose. He also wrote a number of works for the concert hall, as well as several Judaism themed pieces. Kurt Julian Weill was born on March 2, 1900, the third of four childr...