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Kurt Julian Weill (March 2, 1900[1] ? April 3, 1950[1]), was a German, and in his later years American, composer active from the 1920s until his death. He was a leading composer for the stage. He also wrote a number of works for the concert hall. Kurt Julian Weill was born on 1900-03-02 [2], the third of four children to Albert Weill (1867?1950) and Emma Weill née Ackermann (1872?1955). He grew up in a religious Jewish family in the "Sandvorstadt", the Jewish quarter in Dessau, Germany, where his father was a cantor.[1]. At the age of twelve, Kurt Weill started taking piano lessons and made first attempts at writing music; his earliest preserved composition was written in 1913 and is titled Mi Addir. Jewish Wedding Song.[3]