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Which composer adapted Oskar Kokoschka’s Orpheus und Eurydike into an opera?
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Oskar Kokoschka
Austrian painter and writer Oskar Kokoschka, from a German postage stamp, c. 1986.
Oskar Kokoschka’s play Orpheus und Eurydike (1918) was adapted into an opera in 1926 by the German composer Ernst Krenek.1