The Kurt Weill Centre is a cultural site in Dessau, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. It is a museum and information centre about the life and work of the composer Kurt Weill (1900–1950), who was born in Dessau.

Kurt Weill Centre
Kurt-Weill-Zentrum
Meisterhaus Feininger
General information
Architectural style	Modernism
Address	Ebertallee 63 06846 Dessau
Country	Germany
Coordinates	51°50′35″N 12°13′19″E
Website
https://www.kurt-weill-fest.de/pages_en/kwz_1_0_0_0.html

History

The museum is in the Meisterhaus Feininger, built in 1925–26. It was one of the houses designed by Walter Gropius as accommodation for the masters of the Bauhaus; the artist Lyonel Feininger lived here from 1926 to 1932. (Apart from its location in Dessau, it has no direct connection with the life of the composer.)[1] The building is included in the Blaubuch (Blue Book) of the Federal Government, as an important cultural site.[2]

In the 1990s the Kurt Weill Foundation for Music, in New York, and the cultural office of Dessau, founded the Kurt Weill Festival [de], an annual festival in Dessau about the composer. The Kurt Weill Centre was opened as the European centre for the composer's work, and a base for organizing the festival. It was accommodated initially in the nearby Meisterhaus Schlemmer in 1993, and relocated in the present building in December 1994 when renovation was complete.[3]

Exhibition and library

There is a permanent exhibition about the composer; a special exhibition is shown at the time of the Kurt Weill Festival.[3]

The library, open to interested visitors on request, contains sheet music, mainly by Kurt Weill, literature relating to classic modernism, CDs and DVDs.[4]

See also

• List of music museums

References