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Křenek, Ernst (1900–91) US composer, b. Austria, who emigrated to the USA in 1938. From 1920 he experimented with atonal music in Berlin. Living in Vienna after 1930, he adopted the twelve-tone music technique of Schoenberg. He created a sensation with the jazz opera Jonny spielt auf (1925–26).

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