Kurt Julian Weill was born on March 2, 1900, in a religious Jewish family in the "Sandvorstadt", the Jewish quarter in Dessau, Germany where his father was a cantor. At the age of twelve, Kurt Weill started taking piano lessons and made his first attempts at writing music. Weill graduated in Dessau in 1918. Weill's family experienced financial hardship in the aftermath of World War I, and in July 1919, Weill abandoned his studies and returned to Dessau, where he was employed as a repetiteur at the Friedrich-Theater. From 1921 to 1923 he studied composition with Busoni  at the Preußische Akademie der Künste in Berlin. From November 1924 to May 1929, Weill wrote hundreds of reviews for the influential and comprehensive radio program guide Der deutsche Rundfunk. Although he had some success with his first mature non-stage works (such as the String Quartet, Op. 8 or the Concerto for Violin and Wind Orchestra, Op. 12),  Weill tended more and more to vocal music and musical theatre. Weill fled Nazi Germany in March 1933. As a prominent and popular Jewish composer, he was a target of the Nazi authorities, who criticized and even interfered with performances of his later stage works. He moved to Us where he immediately found work in Broadway. Rather than continue to write in the same style that had characterized his European compositions, Weill made a study of American popular and stage music, and his American output, though held by some to be inferior, nonetheless contains individual songs and entire shows that not only became highly respected and admired, but have been seen as seminal works in the development of the American musical. Unique among Broadway composers of the time, Weill insisted on orchestrating every note of his scores himself. Weill suffered a heart attack shortly after his 50th birthday and died on April 3, 1950 in New York City

Over 50 years after his death, Weill's music continues to be performed both in popular and classical contexts. In Weill's lifetime, his work was most associated with the voice of his wife, Lotte Lenya, but shortly after his death "Mack the knife" was established by Louis Armstrong and Bobby Darin as a jazz standard. His music has since been recorded by many performers, ranging from The Doors, Lou Reed. PJ Harvey to New York's Metropolitan Opera and the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra

In "Tribute do Kurt Weill" Jerry Brubaker adapts for band few of his masterpiece such as "September Song" and Mack the Knife