# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ernst-krenek
# Generated: 2026-08-14T06:49:43.466Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ernst-krenek"
name: "Ernst Krenek"
slug: "ernst-krenek"
description: "Ernst Heinrich Krenek was an Austrian, later American, composer. He explored atonality and other modern styles and wrote a number of books, including Music Here and Now (1939), a study of Johannes Ockeghem (1953), and Horizons Circled: Reflections on my Music (1974). Krenek wrote two pieces using the pseudonym Thornton Winsloe."
tagline: "Austrian/American composer (1900–1991)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/Ernst_Krenek_signature_1944.jpg/330px-Ernst_Krenek_signature_1944.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Austria"
  isoCode: "AT"
category:
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  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1900-08-23"
deathDate: "1991-12-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.299564449820099
  historical:           22.85900933333334
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  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  240
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm0470835"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.krenek.at"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump