Jonny spielt auf (Jonny Strikes Up), Op. 45, is a German-language Zeitoper with words and music by Austrian composer Ernst Krenek about a jazz violinist...
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time of the Weimar Republic during 1927, Ernst Krenek's opera of Jonny spielt auf (Jonny Plays) contained jazz musical performances that caused protests...
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tendency to incorporate modern technology (Jonny spielt auf: trains, Der Lindberghflug: airplanes, Von Heute auf Morgen: telephones, and even elevators)...
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aspects of her personality in the character of Anita in his opera Jonny spielt auf". This 'jazz opera', completed in 1926, was an enormous success across...
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Arthur Honegger (Short opera Antigone, 1924/1927), Ernst Krenek (opera Jonny spielt auf, 1927),[citation needed] Dmitri Shostakovich (The Nose (1929), Lady...
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ragtime-inspired syncopated rhythms and modes. Famous operas such as Krenek's Jonny spielt auf! and Boris Blacher's Concertante Music for Orchestra are examples of...
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Werther (1892) – Jules Massenet Turandot (1926) – Giacomo Puccini Jonny spielt auf (1927) – Ernst Krenek Neues vom Tage (1929) – Paul Hindemith Lulu (1937)...
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crusade against jazz, whilst also condemning Ernst Krenek's opera Jonny spielt auf as the archetype of Weimar decadence and miscegenation. In the Soviet...
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Cocteau, this highly stylised piece fuses opera and oratorio. 1927 Jonny spielt auf (Ernst Krenek). A "jazz opera" which enjoyed tremendous success in...
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Ochsenschwanz ("oxtail") is a reference to the boxer Max Schmeling. Like Jonny spielt auf, it makes frequent allusions to jazz, both in its use of percussion...
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began his tenure with productions of Janáček's Jenůfa and Krenek's Jonny spielt auf. In 2005, he founded Tokyo Opera Nomori [fr] and conducted its production...
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Sancta Susanna, Igor Stravinsky's The Soldier's Tale, Ernst Krenek's Jonny spielt auf, and Leoš Janáček's Jenůfa. Ferruccio Busoni's Die Brautwahl (1912)...
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Friedrich Cerha in 1979. In 1927, Ernst Krenek premiered his opera Jonny spielt auf (Jonny begins to play), which achieved a remarkable success and was the...
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characters, including references to modern technology and popular music. Jonny spielt auf (1927), Neues vom Tage (1929) Krenek, Weill, Hindemith Zwischenspiel...
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Webern]", contrasting him with Bartók, Stravinsky, and the Krenek of Jonny spielt auf. Listeners laughed in Berlin (Apr. 1931). There Otto Klemperer had...
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Orestes [de] by Felix Weingartner 1906: The Wreckers by Ethel Smyth 1927: Jonny spielt auf by Krenek 1930: Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny by Weill 1931:...
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roles in the United States premieres of Turandot (Mandarin, 1926), Jonny spielt auf (policeman, 1929), Fra Gherardo (1929, Podestà's Assessor), Sadko (Apparition...
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The work parodied expressionism and psychoanalysis, and prefigured Jonny spielt auf in including jazz elements. Prince Kuno, reigning prince (bass) Princess...
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Tosca (Puccini), Nationaltheatret, Christiania, 28 June 1929 Anita in Jonny spielt auf (Ernst Krenek), Stora Teatern, Gothenburg, 10 April 1931 Dorotka in...
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zurück Erich Wolfgang Korngold – Das Wunder der Heliane Ernst Krenek – Jonny spielt auf Franz Lehár – Der Zarewitsch Darius Milhaud – 3 Opéras-minutes L'enlèvement...
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have included the Father in Hänsel und Gretel, Daniello in Krenek's Jonny spielt auf, Silvano in Un ballo in maschera, Papageno in The Magic Flute and Albert...
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Suite Paul Kletzki 1900 1973 Polish Ernst Krenek 1900 1991 Austrian Jonny spielt auf, Karl V neoclassical, twelve-tone, later serial, neoromantic, eclectic...
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Orchestra, Delos Records 1994, ASIN: B0000006Y6. Anita in Ernst Krenek's Jonny spielt auf with Lothar Zagrosek and the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Polygram...
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world premieres of works by Ernst Krenek and Kurt Weill, including Jonny spielt auf and Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny. He was dismissed by the...
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the maid Yvonne in 19 performances of Krenek's so-called jazz opera Jonny spielt auf, which was later banned by Nazi Germany as degenerate music, and in...
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his operas (a concept called Zeitoper), as was Ernst Krenek whose Jonny spielt auf (1927) has a jazz violinist as its hero. Kurt Weill reflected life...
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premiere for the Metropolitan, Otto Kahn's staging of the jazz opera Jonny spielt auf. In 1929, she went to Europe for several months enjoying herself on...
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and Steel (1930), Lev Knipper's Northern Wind (1930), Ernst Křenek's Jonny spielt auf, and Max Brand's Maschinist Hopkins. The main obstacle to the development...
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was also greatly impressed by Ernst Krenek's jazz-influenced opera, Jonny spielt auf, and its arrangement of another Youmans song from No, No, Nanette,...
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Strauss 1928-11-06 La campana sommersa Ottorino Respighi 1928-11-24 Jonny spielt auf Ernst Krenek 1929-01-19 Fra Gherardo Ildebrando Pizzetti 1929-03-21...
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