The award-winning Kurt Weill Edition, a publication series dedicated to presenting each of Kurt Weill's complete and performable works in comprehensive, new critical editions, offers two unique facsimile publications of the music of Kurt Weill as an ideal gift for the musician who has it all...almost. 

 Popular Adaptations: The newest volume in the KWE, Popular Adaptations, edited by Charles Hamm, Elmar Juchem, and Kim H. Kowalke, represents a striking departure from traditional composer-based critical editions. It displays reduced-size, full-color covers of every piece of Kurt Weill sheet music published during his lifetime, along with other adapted and arranged publications of his work. Nearly forty complete items are reproduced at full size in black and white. Professor Hamm's essay chronicles Weill's career and the complex dealings with his publishers related to various popular exploitations of his work. The images and the essay combine to form a revealing record of a composer who attempted to unite serious and popular music on two continents during the first half of the 20th century.

The Threepenny Opera (Facsimile Edition): The inaugural publication in the series, The Threepenny Opera (Facsimile Edition) offers an unprecedented, first-hand look at the authentic facsimile of this work's monumental score. With The Threepenny Opera, a milestone of 20th century musical theatre, Kurt Weill and playwright Bertolt Brecht transformed traditional opera forms, incorporating a sharp political perspective and the sound of 1920s Berlin dance bands and cabaret. The Threepenny Opera blazed the trail in creating a revolutionary new musical theater that inspired such subsequent hits as Cabaret, Chicago, and Urinetown, and the show's opening number, "Mack the Knife," became one of the top popular songs of the 20th century.

Popular Adaptations (1927-1950)
facsimile edition
edited by Charles Hamm, Elmar Juchem and Kim H. Kowalke
KWE 4002

The Threepenny Opera (1928)
facsimile edition  
edited by Edward Harsh
KWE 4001

To order Popular Adaptations and The Threepenny Opera (Facsimile Edition), please contact kwe@eamdllc.com