Ernst Krenek: The Man and His Music

by John L. Stewart

When Ernst Krenek's opera Jonny spielt auf (Jonny plays on) opened in Leipzig in 1927, it became an instant and spectacular success. Performed in over a hundred cities and translated into a dozen languages, it became the most popular opera of this century. And Austrian-born Krenek, easily one of this century's most prolific major composers, became a wealthy man. Ten years later, however, he found himself a destitute refugee, fleeing to the United...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520070143
• ISBN13: 9780520070141
• Release Date: July 1991
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 520 Pages
• Weight: 2.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 7.5" x 10.3"