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Ernst Krenek

Ernst Krenek
Ernst Krenek, Austrian-American composer and educator (d. 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 wrote two pieces using the pseudonym Thornton Winsloe.

23 August 1900

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