Anton Bruckner achieved lasting success during his lifetime with his 4th Symphony - the name "Romantic" certainly contributed to this. The musical sceneries unfolded by Bruckner are easy to comprehend when listening, the tonal upswings are of haunting effect. In the first months of his forced exile, Kurt Weill composed the ballet music for "The Seven Deadly Sins" in Paris in the spring of 1933 to a text by Bertolt Brecht - seven stages of a story about two young women in the American South, with clear references to the popular music of the 1920s.