18 Facts About Ernst Krenek

Ernst Krenek explored atonality and other modern styles and wrote a number of books, including Music Here and Now, a study of Johannes Ockeghem, and Horizons Circled: Reflections on my Music.

Ernst Krenek studied there and in Berlin with Franz Schreker before working in a number of German opera houses as conductor.

At the time of his marriage to Anna Mahler, Ernst Krenek was completing his Violin Concerto No 1, Op.

In gratitude, Ernst Krenek dedicated the concerto to Moodie, and she premiered it on January 5,1925, in Dessau.

Ernst Krenek did not attend the premiere, but he did have an affair with Moodie, which has been described as "short-lived and complicated".

Ernst Krenek never managed to hear her play the concerto, but he did "immortalize some aspects of her personality in the character of Anita in his opera Jonny spielt auf".

Ernst Krenek himself became uncomfortable with this success though, as his musical colleagues criticised the commercialisation of his music, and shortly afterwards changed his compositional direction radically.

In 1938 Ernst Krenek moved to the United States, where he taught music at various universities, the first being Vassar College.

Ernst Krenek later taught at Hamline University in Saint Paul, Minnesota from 1942 to 1947.

Ernst Krenek later moved to Toronto, Ontario, Canada, where he taught at The Royal Conservatory of Music during the 1950s.

Ernst Krenek's students included Milton Barnes, Lorne Betts, Roque Cordero, Samuel Dolin, Robert Erickson, Halim El-Dabh, Richard Maxfield, Will Ogdon, George Perle, Virginia Seay, and Hsiung-Zee Wong.

Ernst Krenek died there in 1991, aged 91, but was buried at the Vienna Central Cemetery.

Ernst Krenek assisted in editing the first and third movements but went no further.

Ernst Krenek's completion, dated to 1921 in some sources but to 1922 in his own memory, later found other champions in Webster Aitken in the concert hall and Ray Lev; Friedrich Wuhrer; and, more recently, Stanislav Khristenko on records.

Ernst Krenek is more conscious of the fact that unpredictability is one of the most jealously guarded prerogatives of genius.

Ernst Krenek's music encompassed a variety of styles and reflects many of the principal musical influences of the 20th century.

Ernst Krenek abandoned the neoromantic style in the late 1920s to embrace Arnold Schoenberg's twelve-tone technique, the method exclusively employed in Ernst Krenek's opera Karl V and most of his later pieces.

Ernst Krenek used motifs composed by his student Virginia Seay in his works Hurricane Variations for Piano, opus 100 and Tricks and Trifles, for piano.