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Křenek, Ernst (102)

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Krenek was an Austro-American composer. Robert Holliday was the director of the Hamline University Choir, St. Paul, Minn. Krenek was chair of the Hamline University Music Dept. the first six years of Holliday's tenure as director. Commissioned by The Louisville Orchestra. Composed 1954. First performance Louisville, Kentucky, 12 February 1955, The Louisville Orchestra, Robert Whitney conductor.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. American composer of Austrian...

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Toch, Ernst (84)

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A native of Vienna, Toch emigrated to Great Britain in 1933 and shortly later to the U.S. After the war he stayed in Europe for a time and then returned to the U.S. in 1952. Lilly Toch (née Zwack) was Ernst's wife; they married in 1916. Ernst and Lilly appear to have been good friends of Alma Mahler. Austrian composer, pianist, and teacher, naturalized American. Suggested by Sir James Barrie's play. Commissioned by the Serge Koussevitzky Music Found...

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Kroner, Ernst, (69)

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Kroner, Ernst, 1866-1955, (138)

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Ernst Kroner (1866-1955) was a German-born architect who came to Portland, Oregon in 1889....

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Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948 (126)

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The Ernst Herzfeld Papers document the career of Ernst Herzfeld (1879-1948), a German architect, archaeologist, and historian of Islamic and Pre-Islamic studies. After training as an architect he studied archaeology under Delitzch from 1903 to 1906 at the excavations at Assur in Mesopotamia. A Student of Latin, Greek, Arabic, Persian, Turkish, and Hebrew, Herzfeld received a doctorate in humanistic studies at universities in Munich and Berlin in 1907. His work with Friedrich Sarr...

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Halberstadt, Ernst, 1910-1987 (110)

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Ernst Halberstadt (1910-1987) was born in Germany. He graduated from the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston and later worked on murals at Radio City Music Hall, and with Diego Rivera in Detroit. He worked as a WPA (Works Progress Administration) supervisor and documented the slums in Boston in the 1930s. He also worked as a commercial photographer. Ernst Halberstadt, 1910-, painter and mural painter of Cambridge, Mass. Painter, mural painter (Ca...

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Bacon, Ernst, 1898-1990 (106)

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Ernst Bacon, 1898-1990, was an American composer, pianist, conductor, and teacher. Composed 1937. First performance Chicago, 5 February 1940, Illinois Symphony Orchestra of the Works Progress Administration, the composer conducting.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. Composer. California composer; pianist; author, pioneer in composition in scales other than major and minor, music theoretician....

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Dohnányi, Ernst von (52)

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Epithet: composer, d1960 Ernő Dohnányi was a Hungarian musician, composer, and educator. He showed early promise, and achieved world-wide acclaim as a piano virtuoso, introducing many lesser-known works to audiences. He also taught music, and was the key figure in reshaping Hungary's musical culture. After World War II, political pressures forced him to emigrate to Florida, where he accepted a professorial appointment to Florida State University, and where h...

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Ernst, Max, 1891-1976 (84)

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German-French Surrealist painter. Max Ernst (1891-1976) was a painter and sculptor, from New York, N.Y. German painter.

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Mayr, Ernst, 1904-2005 (45)

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Correspondence to Lewis and Sophia Mumford from Ernst Mayr and his wife, Gretel Mayr. Ernst Mayr is a zoologist. Ernst Mayr was the Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology at Harvard University from 1953-1975 and Director of the Museum of Comparative Zoology from 1961-1970. Ernst Mayr, German-born American Zoologist, is credited with modernizing the theory of evolution, a development sometimes called "the...

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