Ernst Krenek

Ernst Krenek
Born
Ernst Heinrich Křenek

(1900-08-23)23 August 1900
Vienna, Austria-Hungary
Died22 December 1991(1991-12-22) (aged 91)
Palm Springs, California, U.S.
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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). Krenek wrote two pieces using the pseudonym Thornton Winsloe.

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