Composer · Composer and writer
Ernst Krenek
Biography
Ernst Krenek (1900–1991) was an Austrian-born composer and writer who worked in Europe and the United States.
He studied composition with Franz Schreker and developed a wide-ranging musical language across a substantial catalogue. His career encompassed contrasting approaches, from jazz-influenced theatre to twelve-note composition and later experimental techniques. Opera, orchestral and chamber music, vocal works and instrumental solos all form part of his output. His guitar writing is represented in Stéphan Masserano’s programme European Guitar of the Twentieth Century.