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Ernst Krenek (Composer)

Born: 23rd August 1900, Vienna, Austria

Died: 22nd December 1991, Palm Springs, California, U.S.A

Nationality: American, Austrian

Ernst Heinrich Krenek was an Austrian, later American, composer of Czech origin. 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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