The work typified the cultural freedom of the golden era of the weimar republic. Oclcs webjunction has pulled together information and resources to assist library staff as they consider how to handle coronavirus. The picture contains the operas main characters and settings whilst drawing upon the weimar. Musical style as a representation of social milieu. Asya fateyeva saxophone, florian donderer violin, emma yoon violin, yuko hara viola, tanja tetzlaff cello, shirley brill clarinet, stepan simonian piano. Opening in leipzig in february 1927, by years end it. With a worldbeating roster of exclusive opera singers including luciano pavarotti, cecilia bartoli, renee fleming and joan sutherland, decca classics has always invested infinite energy and enormous care on its productions, blending the greatest casts with experienced opera orchestras and great conductors. Jonny comenca a tocar es una opera en dues parts i onze escenes amb musica i llibret dernst krenek. To read these you need a pdf reader like the adobe acrobat reader or a ms word viewer. Gustav brecher 5 february 1879 may 1940 was a german conductor, composer, and music critic. Reliable information about the coronavirus covid19 is available from the world health organization current situation, international travel. These works are also probably still under in the u. Lucia poppyvonne, the chambermaid evelyn learanita, an opera singer thomas stewartdanielloa violinst william blankenshipmax, a composer gerd feldhof jonny.
Krenek, ernst all original works compositions and arrangements of this person are still under in canada, the eu, japan and elsewhere and are thus subject to immediate deletion. Krenek max carlos bengolea anita virginia correa dupuy jonny luciano garay danielo victor torres ivonne patricia gutierrez. Jonny music by krenek, weill, hindemith, busch berlin. In part, no doubt, he was reacting against the charges of opportunism already being levelled against him as he changed, seemingly as rapidly as he changed his clothes, from atonality to neoclassicism, through jonny to a seemingly neoromantic phase and on to serialism, postserialism and a late involvement with. The music and the text rapidly took shape in parallel he always worked on both simultaneously, leaving the final wording of his librettos to the act of composition, and the score was fully complete by june 1926. American guild of musical artists 1430 broadway, 14th floor. This article offers a new interpretation of kreneks opera in light of the. Deeply embedded in the cultural world of weimar germany, krenek was friends with the greatest musicians of his day, and enjoyed a brief marriage to gustav mahlers daughter. This musical prodigy was the second son of julius korngold, prominent music critic of the neue freie presse. The work typified the cultural freedom of the golden era of the weimar republic performance history. After studies in vienna with franz schreker, krenek followed his teacher to berlin in 1920 where he continued to work with him at the academy of music. He was dismissed by the nazis in 1933, lived at risk in stalingrad, berlin, prague, and finally ostend, where he took his.
This article offers a new interpretation of kreneks opera in light of the composers views on freedom, developments in contemporary criticism, and the wider context of german idealism. Order from your preferred classical music cd store arkivmusic. Pdf ernst kreneks problem of freedom in jonny spielt. In effect, i had built an image of krenek as a virtuoso, strongly intellectual composer, an image which jonny contradicted. The artistoperas of pfitzner, krenek and hindemith. After a period in which he espoused the romanticism of franz schubert, he began in the 1930s to. Ernst krenek vassar college encyclopedia vassar college. Composed by the then 26yearold ernst krenek 19001991 jonny blends sumptuous opera with riotous jazz and dance music to create a genredefying, epochdefining, comedydrama. At the finale, a train station clock is transformed into a globe, on which the jazz violinst jonny stands while playing a soundtrack to the demise of the old world order. And of course, the bigger the scandal, the better the box office receipts. Jonny plays je nazev opery na text a hudbu ceskorakouskeho skladatele ernsta krenka o jazzovem houslistovi. The case for investigating the music of kreneks subsequent six decades of creative life now seems compelling.
Performed in over a hundred cities and translated into a dozen languages, it became the most popular opera of this century. Ernst krenek, lothar zagrosek, gewandhausorchester leipzig, heinz kruse, alessandra marc, krister st hill, michael kraus, marita posselt, leipzig opernchor krenek. Ernst krenek, the opera quarterly, volume 11, issue 1, 1 january 1994, pages 147149. Yet, within the decade, krenek was forced to flee from central europe, his work banned by the nazis.
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Erich wolfgang korngold erich wolfgang korngold was born on 29 may 1897 in bruenn, moravia, in the austrohungarian empire today brno, czech republic. It was 1927 and its combination of a salacious story by their times, traditional opera, some atonal touches, and jazz elements caused a scandal. Dilo je napsane v nemcine a je typickym prikladem kulturniho projevu tzv. It was enormously popular, and toured all over europe and the united states. Out of this ferment and virtual explosion of styles came the only work that krenek could count as an unequivocal public success. It was premiered at the stadttheater, leipzig on 10 february 1927 and was quickly thereafter adopted by opera houses across germany where it was performed. I grant consent to the processing of my personal data for marketing purposes. A history of opera, by carolyn abbate and roger parker. Learn vocabulary, terms, and more with flashcards, games, and other study tools. Jonny was perhaps the biggest opera success of the 1920s, the rolemodel of the socalled zeitgeistopera, and its fantastic to revive some of. In his early years krenek was not a modernist, but later started using schoenberg s 12tone system.
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