Born in Dessau, Germany, the son of a cantor. After a childhood of classical music training he became a leader in the avant-garde music scene in Berlin of the 1920s. From his early collaboration with Bertolt Brecht on such masterpieces as The Threepenny Opera and The Seven Deadly Sins to his classic Broadway scores for One Touch of Venus and Lost in the Stars (with such collaborators as Maxwell Anderson, Moss Hart and Ira Gershwin) Weill's vision of a new operatic form, a seamless marriage of narrative and music, changed musical theatre forever. His contribution to popular music is equally great, for the mocking cynical "Moritat" ("Mac the Knife") to the sentimental "September Song." A transplanted American, who claimed to be happiest in the drugstores of New York City, Weill suffered a heart attack and died suddenly in 1950, leaving a body of work explored and celebrated largely posthumously.  Nominated for Music Scoring Awards (Scoring of a Musical Picture) 1944: KNICKERBOCKER HOLIDAY (w. Werner R. Heymann) 1 nomination