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"Mack the Knife" or "The Ballad of Mack the Knife" (German: "Die Moritat von Mackie Messer") is a song composed by with lyrics by for their 1928 music drama (German: Die Dreigroschenoper). The song tells of a knife-wielding criminal of the London underworld from the musical named , the "Mack the Knife" of the title.
youtu.be/4jcCwmtVAIM

#kurtweill #bertoltbrecht #thethreepennyopera #macheath

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· @jackLondon
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@MikeDunnAuthor @bookstadon

Please do not airbrush out of references to (Die Dreigroschenoper) and those songs ( , a jazz standard, is from Threepenny Opera)

The popularity of those works largely rests on Weill's music rather than Brecht's politics, but it was a magical collaboration where the whole was more than the sum of the parts

#kurtweill #thethreepennyopera #macktheknife

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