Lys Symonette German Pianist
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Details
| Birthday |
21st December, 1914
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| Birthplace |
Mainz, Hesse, Germany
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| Died |
27th November, 2005
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| Place of Death |
New York, United States
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| Zodiac Sign |
Sagittarius
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| Nationality |
German
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| Occupation Text |
pianist, singer, musical assistant to Kurt Weill, musical executive with the Kurt Weill foundation
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| Occupation |
Pianist
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Bertlies "Lys" Symonette (born Berta Weinschenk: 21 December 1914 – 27 November 2005) was a German-American pianist, chorus singer and musical stage performer. In 1945 she took a job as rehearsal pianist, coach, understudy or multi-tasking "swing-girl" for The Firebrand of Florence, a Kurt Weill musical making its Broadway debut. This proved to be the start of a new career as Weill's musical assistant: from that point a principal focus of her professional life was on the composer and, more particularly after his early death in 1950, the career of his widow, the stage performer Lotte Lenya. When Lenya died, in 1981, Lys Symonette was appointed vice-president of the Kurt Weill Foundation, also serving as its "musical executive". When she died her friend and frequent collaborator, Prof. Kim H. Kowalke, published an affectionate tribute in which he described her as "the last and irreplaceable link to the inner artistic circle of Weill and Lenya".
