Weill

American  

[wahyl, vahyl] / waɪl, vaɪl /

noun

1. Kurt 1900–50, German composer, in the U.S. after 1935.

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Weill British  

/ vaɪl /

noun

1. Kurt (kʊrt). 1900–50, German composer, in the US from 1935. He wrote the music for Brecht's The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny (1927) and The Threepenny Opera (1928)

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Example Sentences

Meanwhile, we could do without descriptions of Harry Truman’s attire at Potsdam or what Kurt Weill wrote to Lotte Lenya on V-E Day—a dozen years after the couple fled Europe for show-business success in America.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 17, 2026

Clinical Professor of Psychology at Weill Cornell Medicine, says the decline of extended family involvement has helped fuel what the U.S.

From Science Daily • Jun. 13, 2026

M.A., an assistant professor of neurology at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York City.

From Science Daily • Feb. 1, 2026

Citi’s former CEO Sandy Weill just gave the largest donation in veterinary medicine to the school that cared for his dog.

From MarketWatch • Jan. 29, 2026

A bracing example of how the landscape was changing can be seen in the unfolding career of the classically trained son of an orthodox Jewish cantor, Kurt Weill.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall