Sechs Motetten
for mixed choir a cappella (1959)
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Ernst Krenek
Sechs Motetten
for mixed choir a cappella (1959)

Ernst Krenek
Sechs Motetten

for mixed choir a cappella (1959)

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Download immediately after ordering
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Description:

  • Language: German
  • Pages: 38
  • Release: 02.02.2026
  • Opus: 169
  • Genre: Sacred & Church Music
  • ISMN: 9790006628582
My writing style of the last ten years, for example, can be confidently described as dodecaphonic, as the twelve tones are always present in close proximity. It is atonal because it dispenses with tonal centers. I only use the stricter disciplines of twelve-tone and serial techniques occasionally, as I prefer a more relaxed texture. I have nothing to do with newer tendencies such as 'new simplicity', 'neo-romanticism', 'minimalism' and the like. (Ernst Krenek, 1989)

The music-historical status of Ernst Krenek, who left behind an oeuvre of more than 240 works when he died at the age of 91, was already extreme during his lifetime: In Europe, his versatility was often criticized as a multiple compositional "change of style", thus tacitly assuming that a creative life had to be stylistically uniform; on the other hand, in the USA he was characterized as a "one-man history of twentieth-century music", thus taking into account the singular and almost unbelievable fact that Krenek's oeuvre spans a period of more than seven decades of the 20th century - from the end of the tenth to the end of the twentieth century. Century - from the end of the ten's to the end of the eighties. However, if one takes the bon mot seriously, it is not just a matter of temporal concordance or participation in every current trend, but of Krenek's contemporaneity.