Albright, Daniel2009-02-162000Albright, Daniel. 2000. Kurt Weill as modernist. Modernism/modernity 7(2): 273-284.1071-60681080-6601http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:2609643Kurt Weill seems the opposite of a Modernist when compared with Schoenberg, or with the fictitious composer Adrian Leverkühn in Mann’s Doktor Faustus–composers who seem furiously to reject the warm-hearted, gemütlich aesthetic of much nineteenth-century art. But in such works as Die Dreigroschenoper and Der Jasager, Weill, like Thomas Mann himself, shows himself a Modernist of a sophisticated sort by devising a new sort of irony, an irony that does not reject bourgeois values but instead dwells in an interspace between derision and warmth.en-USMusic -- 20th century -- History and criticismWeill, Kurt, 1900-1950 -- Criticism and interpretationModernism (Aesthetics)Journal Article10.1353/mod.2000.0025