On this day, 75 years ago, on April 3, 1950 (February 17, 1950 in the lunar calendar), the American master composer Weil passed away. Kurt Weil and his wife Lottie Lenia died on April 3, 1950 at Flower Fivers Street Hospital after a short illness. He was 50 years old. His famous works include "Three Cent Opera" and famous folk songs such as "Speak Quietly" and "Song of September". His scores for "A Corner with Venus" and "Lady in the Dark" and other very successful songs are admired by Broadway people, and his more serious works are equally praised in concert halls around the world. Weil has lived in the United States since 1935. He was expelled from his native Germany in 1933 after being accused by the Nazis of "cultural Bolshevism." The diminutive composer with large eyes was born in Dessau in 1900. Influenced by his father, who worked as a chorus conductor in the church, he began composing music in elementary school and went to Berlin to study at the age of 18. In 1928, Weil married the famous German soprano singer Lottie Lenia. In the same year, he co-wrote "Three Cent Opera" with playwright Brecht. This work has been widely praised around the world and has been performed more than 2000 times in Germany. Other operas he co-wrote with Brecht include "The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagoni", which is also very popular. Broadway masterpieces include "New Yorkers 'Holiday" and "Disappearing among the Stars", which he co-wrote with playwright Mark Anderson.