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Available for US Premiere: A New Arrangement of Dances from Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht's Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny

Jul. 27, 2023

Available for US Premiere: A New Arrangement of Dances from Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht's <em>Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny</em>

Composer Christian Muthspiel, who with HK Gruber created the fifteen-player version of Die sieben Todsünden, has turned to Kurt Weill again. In response to a commission from Leipzig’s famed Gewandhausorchester, Muthspiel has taken six numbers from Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht's Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny and arranged them for wind quintet. The Gewandhaus-Bläserquintett has already performed Tänze aus Mahagonny twice, giving the world premiere in Leipzig on February 26, followed by a repeat at the Salzburg Easter Festival on April 2. The six-movement work consists of the following numbers from the opera: “Alabama-Song,” “Denn wie man sich bettet,” “Ich habe gelernt,” “Ach bedenken Sie, Herr Jakob Schmidt,” “Jetzt hab’ ich gegessen zwei Kälber,” and “Erstens, vergesst nicht, kommt das Fressen.”


The Gewandhaus-Bläserquintett; Photo: Jens Gerber

Says Muthspiel: “It's a perfect piece for woodwind quintet, and it would be great for a good dance company, or even solo dancer, to work with because of its many different moods and tempi.”

Tänze aus Mahagonny
Arrangement by Christian Muthspiel of six excerpts from Weill's opera
Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny
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