Composer · Early Modern Era
Ernst Krenek
1900 – 1991 · Austrian · 5 operas in the catalogue
Ernst Heinrich Krenek (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). Krenek wrote two pieces using the pseudonym Thornton Winsloe.
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Operas in the Opera Almanac Catalogue
- 1924 Der Sprung über den Schatten, 1924
- 1927 Jonny spielt auf, 1927 German
- 1928 Das geheime Königreich, 1928 German
- 1928 Der Diktator, 1928 German
- 1934 Cefalo e Procri, 1934 Italian