After a season as conductor of the newly formed municipal theater in Lüdenscheid, he returned to Berlin and was accepted into Ferruccio Busoni’s master class in composition. After studying theory and composition with Albert Bing, Kapellmeister of the Theater, Weill enrolled at the Berlin Hochschule für Musik, but found the conservative training and the infrequent lessons with Engelbert Humperdinck too stifling. During the First World War, the teenage Weill was conscripted as a substitute accompanist at the Dessau Court Theater. By the time he was twelve, he was composing and mounting concerts and dramatic works in the hall above his family’s quarters in the Gemeindehaus. The son of a cantor, Weill displayed musical talent early on. Kurt Weill was born on March 2, 1900 in Dessau, Germany.
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