| Kurt Weill Centre | |
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Kurt-Weill-Zentrum | |
 Meisterhaus Feininger | |
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| Architectural style | Modernism |
| Address | Ebertallee 63 06846 Dessau |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 51°50′35″N12°13′19″E / 51.84306°N 12.22194°E /51.84306; 12.22194 |
TheKurt Weill Centre is a cultural site inDessau, inSaxony-Anhalt, Germany. It is a museum and information centre about the life and work of the composerKurt Weill (1900–1950), who was born in Dessau.
The museum is in theMeisterhaus Feininger, built in 1925–26. It was one of the houses designed byWalter Gropius as accommodation for the masters of theBauhaus; the artistLyonel 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 theBlaubuch (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 theKurt 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 nearbyMeisterhaus Schlemmer in 1993, and relocated in the present building in December 1994 when renovation was complete.[3]
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]
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