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Concert Pianist, Organist, Teacher, Composer
Ejnar Krantz was born August 3, 1915, the second-born son of Swedish
immigrants. In 1933, Ejnar moved to Chicago with his maternal uncle to continue his
real formal music education in piano, music theory and composition at Sherwood Music School.
For a full year, Ejnar was a scholarship pupil of Rudolph Ganz studying
piano with him as he attended the Chicago Musical College where in 1943, he obtained his Master of Music degree. He here studied composition with Max Wald and gave piano recitals. His doctoral
thesis was "An Approach to Fingering in Piano Playing".
Concert pianist Ejnar Krantz made his debut in New York's Town Hall and has concertizd for several years in the USA and abroad with violinists,
singers and as a soloist under art agency. His professional teaching career began in Ruston, LA, at the Polytechnic Institute for one year, followed by three years in San Antonio, TX, where he set up a large private Piano Studio in the old opera building downtown and was choral director at Grace Lutheran Church.
Ejnar Krantz had a broadmindedness about himself, others and the world, wanting to feel at home with all nationalities and religious groups.
His wanderlust took him to share his music in Sweden. For three years, beginning in 1957, Dr. Krantz served the First Presbyterian Church in South Bend, Indiana, as organist-director "Minister of Music". Dr. Krantz became an adjunct professor of Piano and Music History at
the University of Indiana-South Bend, the position he held for more than 20 years until his retirement in 1995 while maintaining a private
piano studio.
Dr. Krantz served the National Guild of Piano Teachers for over 30 years as an Adjudicator who knew how to enable students to perform their best by making them comfortable with him.
Composer, Dr. Ejnar Krantz has provided the music world withcompositions for piano, organ, voice and choir as need and inspiration dictated throughout his life. They are now published by Alliance Publications, Inc. See: www.apimusic.org
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