Hans Werner Henze (Composer)
Born: 1st July 1926, Gutersloh, Germany
Died: 27th October 2012, Dresden, Germany
Nationality: German
Hans Werner Henze was a German composer. His large oeuvre of works is extremely varied in style, having been influenced by serialism, atonality, Stravinsky, Italian music, Arabic music and jazz, as well as traditional schools of German composition. In particular, his stage works reflect "his consistent cultivation of music for the theatre throughout his life".
Henze was also known for his political convictions. He left Germany for Italy in 1953 because of a perceived intolerance towards his leftist politics and homosexuality. Late in life he lived in the village of Marino in the central Italian region of Lazio, and in his final years still travelled extensively, in particular to Britain and Germany, as part of his work.
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Igor Levit's Tristan
Hans Werner Henze's brilliant, baffling set of ‘Preludes for piano, electronic tapes and orchestra’ sits at the heart of this Wagner-inspired recital, which also includes music by Liszt and Mahler via Ronald Stevenson.
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Orchestral
Chamber
Instrumental
Vocal
Concertos
Popular Works: Henze, H
- 5 Neapolitanische Lieder (5)
- Adagio Adagio (3)
- Antifone (2)
- Ballett-Variationen (4)
- Being Beauteous (4)
- Capriccio (4)
- Carillon, Recitatif, Masque (6)
- Das Floß der Medusa (3)
- Der Prinz von Homberg (2)
- Die Bassariden (3)
- Drei Tentos (16)
- El Cimarrón (5)
- Erlkönig (2)
- Fünf Nachtstücke (Elegie, Capriccio, Shepherd's Song I; Shepherd's Song II, Ode) (5)
- Il Vitalino raddoppiato (3)
- Kammermusik 1958 on the hymn 'In lieblicher Bläue' (3)
- Kammersonate (4)
- L'autunno (2)
- Nachtstücke und Arien (5)
- Neue Volkslieder und Hirtengesänge (3)
- Ode an den Westwind (3)
- Orpheus behind the wire (5)
- Quintet - Introduktion, Variationen und Fuge (3)
- Royal Winter Music 1 - First Sonata on Shakespearean Characters for Guitar (12)
- Royal Winter Music 2 - Second Sonata on Shakespearean Characters for Guitar (11)
- S. Biagio 9 Agosto ore 1207 (4)
- Sérénade (9)
- Serenade for Cello Solo (7)
- Sonatina for solo trumpet (4)
- Symphonic Interludes from Boulevard Solitude (2)
- Symphonies Nos. 1 - 6 (2)
- Symphony No. 2 (3)
- Symphony No. 3 (4)
- Symphony No. 4 (3)
- Symphony No. 5 (3)
- Symphony No. 7 (4)
- Symphony No. 8 (3)
- Three Auden Songs (3)
- Undine (3)
- Violin Concerto No. 1 (4)
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