Krenek – Hilmer, Ernst (editor). – Ernst Krenek.

Ernst Krenek (1900–1991) was one of the most significant, versatile, and experimental Austrian-American composers and intellectuals of the 20th century. His body of work reflects nearly the entire stylistic history of modern music. Born on August 23, 1900, in Vienna, he grew up in a Catholic family of military officers of Bohemian descent. Beginning in 1916, he studied composition with Franz Schreker in Vienna and followed him to Berlin in 1920. In the 1920s, he was briefly married to Anna Mahler (Gustav Mahler’s daughter) and worked as an assistant at theaters in Kassel and Wiesbaden. Due to his progressive music and the political upheavals, he emigrated to the U.S. in 1938 following the “Anschluss” of Austria, where he became a naturalized citizen in 1945. He taught at renowned institutions such as Vassar College and Hamline University. Beginning in 1947, he lived in Los Angeles, and from 1966 until his death on December 22, 1991, he lived in Palm Springs with his third wife, the composer Gladys Nordenstrom. – Exposed have been 282 objects, mainly his letters to friends, other composers, family etc. such you have a good inside of his life. – Rare.