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Ernst Krenek (1900-1991) was an Austrian-born American composer whose career encompassed opera, orchestral music, chamber works, songs, and electronic composition. He became widely known through the jazz-influenced opera Jonny spielt auf, first performed in 1927 and closely associated with the cultural climate of the Weimar era. His musical language changed repeatedly, moving through late Romantic, neoclassical, twelve-tone, and serial approaches before and after his emigration to the United States.
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