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Ernst Krenek

1900 - 1991

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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). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ernst Krenek has received more than 196,659 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia. Ernst Krenek is the 547th most popular composer (up from 574th in 2019), the 466th most popular biography from Austria (down from 462nd in 2019) and the 35th most popular Austrian Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Ernst Krenek ranks 547 out of 1,216. Before him are Louis Couperin, Helmut Lachenmann, Domenico Dragonetti, Georgy Sviridov, George Antheil, and Orazio Vecchi. After him are Morton Feldman, Karl Amadeus Hartmann, Sergei Lyapunov, Antonio Rosetti, Philippe Herreweghe, and Fredrik Pacius.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1900, Ernst Krenek ranks 106. Before him are Miguel Alemán Valdés, Valko Chervenkov, Zhang Wentian, Violet Brown, Hassan Fathy, and George Antheil. After him are Marc Allégret, James Hilton, Fritz London, René Crevel, Xavier Cugat, and Evald Aav. Among people deceased in 1991, Ernst Krenek ranks 78. Before him are Pedro Arrupe, Berenice Abbott, Edmond Jabès, Rudolf Serkin, Edwin H. Land, and Héctor Rial. After him are Carmine Coppola, Cassandra Harris, Yevgeny Dragunov, Richard Thorpe, Princess Fahrelnissa Zeid, and Étienne Decroux.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Ernst Krenek ranks 466 out of 1,237. Before him are Archduchess Magdalena of Austria (1532), Moritz von Schwind (1804), Solomiya Krushelnytska (1872), Hermann Gmeiner (1919), Archduke Wilhelm Franz of Austria (1827), and Petar Brzica (1917). After him are Toto Wolff (1972), Karl Schäfer (1909), Henri Herz (1803), Archduchess Isabella Clara of Austria (1629), Ivan Šubašić (1892), and Anton Graf von Arco auf Valley (1897).

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Among COMPOSERS In Austria

Among composers born in Austria, Ernst Krenek ranks 35. Before him are Johann Joseph Fux (1660), Oscar Straus (1870), Robert Stolz (1880), Georg Christoph Wagenseil (1715), Karl Michael Ziehrer (1843), and Joseph Hellmesberger Jr. (1855). After him are Johann Heinrich Schmelzer (1620), Robert Fuchs (1847), Carl Zeller (1842), Johann Strauss III (1866), Joseph Leopold Eybler (1765), and Hans Rott (1858).

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