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Phone: 212-860-5541 * Fax: 917-677-8247
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Price: $125.00 |
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Autographed and inscribed 4.5” x 6” photograph of the prolific Austrian-American composer. Krenek was not only a prolific composer, but a noted intellectual in music circles, as well as a musical philosopher. He studied with composer Franz Schreker and was married for a short time to Gustav Mahler’s daughter Anna. The Nazi’s thought due to his relations with fellow musicians of Jewish ancestry and his marriage, that Krenek was Jewish and once they took power in Germany in 1933. A born Catholic, all of his commissions and planned performances were revoked. A poster of his great 1927 jazz opera, “Jonny spielt auf” was shown at the “Degenerate Art Exhibition” in Munich, 1938, with a gorilla as Jonny with a yellow star of David on his jacket. Krenek saw his opportunities were no longer available in Germany and with the Anschluss in 1938, he left for America. Krenek, whose socialist political philosophies lost him academic jobs, none-the-less remained in the forefront of musical philosophy and composition throughout his long life. He wrote 18 operas, 3 ballets and endless symphonic, chamber, piano and choral works. He also wrote 13 books on musical philosophy
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ERNST KRENEK - COMPOSER |
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NEAR MINT CONDITION |
