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Ernst Heinrich Krenek (Czech: [ˈkr̝ɛnɛk], 23 August 1900 – 22 December 1991) was an Austrian, later American, composer. He explored atonality and other modern styles and wrote a number of books, including Music Here and Now (1939), a study of Johannes Ockeghem (1953), and Horizons Circled: Reflections on my Music (1974).
Ernst Krenek (born Aug. 23, 1900, Vienna, Austria—died Dec. 23, 1991, Palm Springs, Calif., U.S.) was an Austrian-American composer, one of the prominent exponents of the serial technique of musical composition. Krenek studied in Vienna and Berlin and was musical assistant at the German opera houses of Kassel (1925–27) and Wiesbaden (1927 ...
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Learn about the life and music of Ernst Krenek, a distinguished and multifaceted composer of the 20th century. Explore his achievements, challenges, influences, emigration, women and legacy in various thematic blocks.
Born in Vienna at the dawn of the twentieth century, the composer Ernst Krenek (1900 – 1991) began his career in the musical salons of Weimar Berlin and ended it half way across the world in the recording studios of Southern California.
May 18, 2018 · Prolific Austrian-American composer Ernst Krenek (1900-1991) experimented widely with styles and techniques of composition, including atonality, neoclassicism, the twelve-tone system, serialism, and electronic music. Ernst Krenek was born on August 23, 1900, in Vienna, Austria, to Czech parents.
Ernst Krenek's over 250 compositions exhibit a unique range among the composers of the twentieth century in their heterogeneity of form and tonal qualities. Explore his various creative periods: from early childhood to mature old age after eight creative decades!
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Dec 24, 1991 · Ernst Krenek, a composer whose works touched on nearly every avant-garde style of composition in this century, died yesterday in a hospital in Palm Springs, Calif. He was 91 years old and lived...
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