Ernst Heinrich Krenek (Czech: [ˈkr̝ɛnɛk], 23 August 1900 – 22 December 1991) was an Austrian, later American, composer. He explored atonality and other...
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incomplete list of the works of the Austrian, later American, composer Ernst Krenek (1900–1991). His complete output includes 242 works with Opus numbers...
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Werner Reinhart (section Ernst Krenek)
same evening. "I know no one else today who could do that", he said. Ernst Krenek and his then-wife Anna Mahler (daughter of Gustav Mahler) lived in Zurich...
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Krenek may refer to: Ernst Krenek (1900–1991), Austrian and American composer Křenek (Prague-East District) This disambiguation page lists articles associated...
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from Schoenberg's teaching. Other members of this generation included Ernst Krenek, Heinrich Jalowetz, Erwin Stein and Egon Wellesz, and somewhat later...
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operetta by Jacques Offenbach (1858) Orpheus und Eurydike, an opera by Ernst Krenek (1926) Orpheus and Eurydice, a ballet choreographed by Dame Ninette de...
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Austrian-born (later American) composer Ernst Krenek (1900–1991). Sources Purkis, Charlotte (1992b). "Krenek, Ernst". The New Grove Dictionary of Opera,...
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Expressionist drama. His Orpheus und Eurydike (1918) became an opera by Ernst Krenek, who was first approached for incidental music. 1908: Die traumenden...
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Maderna, Franco Donatoni, Benjamin Britten, John Cage, Aaron Copland, Ernst Krenek, György Ligeti, Olivier Messiaen, Arvo Pärt, Walter Piston, Ned Rorem...
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Orpheus und Eurydike (category Operas by Ernst Krenek)
Orpheus und Eurydike (Orpheus and Eurydice) is an opera by Ernst Krenek. The German text is based on a play by Oskar Kokoschka. Kokoschka began writing...
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Jonny spielt auf (category Operas by Ernst Krenek)
a German-language Zeitoper with words and music by Austrian composer Ernst Krenek about a jazz violinist. He dedicated the opera to his second wife, Berta...
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Stewart, Ernst Krenek: The Man and his Music. Berkeley: University of California, Berkeley Press, 1991; page 321 "Festival in Honor of Krenek". Desert...
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Anna moved to Berlin to study art. While there, she fell in love with Ernst Krenek, the composer, who later was asked by Alma to produce a neat copy of...
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Karl V. (opera) (category Operas by Ernst Krenek)
opera, described as a Bühnenwerk mit Musik (stage work with music) by Ernst Krenek, his opus 73. The German libretto is by the composer. His student Virginia...
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he made a concert tour in 1951 and recorded the 1948 Viola Sonata by Ernst Krenek. He was forced to give up professional music due to a neuropathy.[citation...
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composer and musicologist who studied and collaborated with composer Ernst Krenek. She published her works under the name Virginia Seay. Seay was born...
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composer. At this time Adorno struck up a correspondence with the composer Ernst Krenek, discussing problems of atonality and the twelve-tone technique. In a...
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Sylvano Bussotti, Mauricio Kagel, Hans Werner Henze, Henri Pousseur, Ernst Krenek, Gilbert Amy, Peter Schat and Gilles Tremblay, Betsy Jolas as well as...
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Netherlands Gaetano Donizetti, completed by Matteo Salvi: Le duc d'Albe Ernst Krenek: Karl V Albert of Mainz, Elector and Archbishop of Mainz Paul Hindemith:...
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includes short lectures by Deutsch on each of the pieces. In the 1920s, Ernst Krenek criticized a certain unnamed brand of contemporary music (presumably...
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"burlesque in four scenes". A later example is the 1927 burlesque operetta by Ernst Krenek entitled Schwergewicht (Heavyweight) (1927). Burleske Burleske (1885–86)...
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movements, a large central movement surrounded by two much shorter ones. Ernst Krenek composed a setting of the Lamentations in 1942, which Stravinsky acknowledged...
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eleven of his twenty stage works. In July 1947 the Austrian composer Ernst Krenek discussed Schubert's style, abashedly admitting that he had at first...
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Lucretia, a 1946 opera by Benjamin Britten which premiered at Glyndebourne. Ernst Krenek set Emmet Lavery's libretto Tarquin (1940), a version in a contemporary...
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George Perle (category Pupils of Ernst Krenek)
he studied with Wesley LaViolette and received private lessons from Ernst Krenek. Later, he served as a technician fifth grade in the United States Army...
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Darmstadt, where he became familiar with the music and philosophies of Ernst Krenek, Hermann Scherchen and Edgard Varèse. He emigrated to Canada in 1951...
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Chaconne de l'impératrice, from the film music for Napoléon (1926–27) Ernst Krenek: Toccata und Chaconne: über den Choral "Ja ich glaub an Jesum Christum"...
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was during this time that Elias Canetti saw her and, like the composer Ernst Krenek and others in Alma's circle, wrote about his impressions of Manon in...
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of Judaism Arnold Schoenberg Kurt Weill and Ernst Krenek Minor Bolsheviks (Franz Schreker, Alban Berg, Ernst Toch, etc.) Leo Kestenberg, director of musical...
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