Ernst Krenek, Austrian-American composer and educator (died 1991)

Ernst Krenek

Austrian/American composer (1900–1991)

Ernst Heinrich Krenek 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…