Hans Werner Henze has composed several film scores for Volker Schlöndorff's literary adaptations. 'In 1966 I wrote the music of Volker Schlöndorff's first film Der junge Törless. I then thought the so...
In contrast to many composerswho only began to write symphonies in their maturity, Hans Werner Henze composed his First Symphony when he was 20. Henze himself later described this original version as...
Dirigier- und Studienpartitur
Dirigier- und Studienpartitur. Ein Orchesterklang zum Dahinschmelzen! Zum 200. Geburtstag Telemanns im Jahr 1967 instrumentierte Hans Werner Henze ein Quartett des Barockkomponisten neu. Heraus kam di...
These nine instrumental pieces speak of the anxiety and distress of mankind in our time, of sickness and death, of love and of loneliness. Henze is concerned with questions of existential significance...
Requiem, 9 sacred concertos for piano solo, trumpet and large chamber orchestra' is the title of the original work of which Henze said: 'These nine instrumental pieces speak of the fears and needs of...
Der Klavierauszug ED 5080 kann sowohl für die Erstfassung (mit Chor) als auch für die revidierte Fassung (Chor durch Solisten ersetzt) verwendet werden.
The earliest and now obsolete version of this piece (first performed in Heidelberg, 1949) was scored for actors and orchestra. This revised version of 1964 has recast the actors' parts into roles for...
Soli, Chor und Orchester
Soli, Chor und Orchester - Klavierauszug - englisch / deutsch
From his opera 'Venus and Adonis', which draws on classical mythology, Hans Werner Henze has taken four movements already described there as 'madrigals' and arranged them for a cappella performance. T...
A number of sketches for this work were made in Greece in the summer of 1958. When the work was finished, I dedicated it to Benjamin Britten. In 1963, on the occasion of the 60th birthday of my old fr...
My idea of developing music from Richard of Gloucester's monologue 'Now is the winter of our discontent', and of generating more music from that material, was conceived during the 1960s. Ten years lat...
Fünf Jahre nach der ersten habe ich mich angeschickt, eine zweite Sonate für die von mir geliebte Gitarre zu schreiben. Und nicht nur um den Gesamttitel des Zyklus' (der hiermit geschlossen ist) beibe...
'The movements in this suite were origi-nally taken from my animal opera The English Cat but have undergone a series of mutations in the process of adaptation, their shape has changed and the melody a...
The director-producer Volker Schlöndorff added the string sextet version of the elegiac piano piece Une petite phrase (with variations by students of Henze's composition class in Cologne) to the Marce...
In den Jahren 1995/96 komponierte Hans Werner Henze das Ballett Le fils de l'air ou L'enfant changé en jeune homme. Nach der - zauberischen - Verwandlung durch die Künste der Gaukler, in deren Welt si...
When Henze, after nearly half a century, revisited some of his earlier musical material the result was this sophisti-cated little suite of intricate chamber pieces.
This substantial mature work shows the superb mastery of one of Germany's foremost contemporary composers. Henze, renowned for his lush orchestral textures and sensuous sonorities, aims for similar mu...
This work was originally written for brass band (see there). At the composer's request, his former pupil Marcel Wengler wrote an arrangement for Symphonie wind band, which is equal to the original in...
The Kammersonate, for violin, cello and piano was composed in 1948 while Henze was working at the German theatre in Constance. It was the only chamber music written in a year which saw the composition...
Die im Titel genannten Namen beziehen sich auf Allegra Mostyn-Owen und Boris Johnson. Allegra Mostyn-Owen ist die einzige Tochter der italienischen Dichterin Gaia Servadio und des Historikers Mostyn-O...
Horn, 2 Trompeten, Posaune und Tenortuba
Flöte (Altflöte, Piccolo), Oboe (Oboe d'amore), Klarinette, (Klarinette (Es)/Bass-Klarinette (B)), Horn (ad lib. auch Wagnertuba), Fagott (Kontrafagott)
This popular piece is now available in a version for viola. In close collaboration with Henze, the arranger Garth Knox created an edition in which the dynamics and phrasing have been made more precise...
Hans Werner Henze's output is primarily dominated by large-scale, representative musical genres with a richly differentiated instrumental tonal palette: opera and other forms of musical theatre works,...
This song cycle (duration nearly an hour) was written for Ian Bostridge. The subtle Oriental influence behind the profound poetry is mirrored in the scintillating tonal colours of the multi-faceted hi...
A good means for amateur orchestras to approach New Music!Henze's enchanting fairytale opera Pollicino was written for the school children of the little hiltop vollage, Montpulciano, in Tuscany where...
Bengalische Flöte - Inkaflöte - Maultrommeln - Dobaçi (eine davon im Wasser) - 3 P. (mit Ped. u. mit Gongs auf den Fellen) - 5-6 Donnerbleche - hg. Beck. (und andere Schlaginstrumente aus Stahl, Bronz...
In this composition of mine, the poetry is treated as though each of its thoughts were a small aria in itself. These arias are framed by short violoncello quartets into which the harp is entwined. Whe...
I. Frösche wünschen sich einen König. Sie mißverstehen die Warnung Jupiters vor diesem dummen Wunsch, darauf schickt er ihnen einen Kranich, der sie frißt. II. Früher konnten die Krähen wunderschön si...
Hans Werner Henze, adhering to his intentions äs a composer and teacher, had already made provision for participation by a ,banda' of amateur musicians in the original version of his arrangement of Gi...
Das Stück ist als ein Nachruf auf eine verehrte und geliebte Freundin, die Prinzessin Margaret von Hessen und bei Rhein gedacht. Es ist wie eine sechsstimmige Motette geschrieben und reflektiert Schme...
Die Vier Präludien sind aus dem Originalwerk 'Tristan, preludes für klavier, tonbänder und orchester' herausgelöste, vorwiegend solistische Teile mit geringen Änderungen.
The Ragtimes & Habaneras were commissioned by the Grimethorpe Colliery Band, one of the most famous Brass Bands in Great Britain. Individual scenes and short pieces of incidental music in typical Amer...
Henze composed these dances, which can be scored for various instruments, for the orchestra of the conservatory of Deutschlandsberg (Austria). These compositions are based on an anonymous 'Morissa' (S...
The making of El Cimarrón began in about 1986, with a conversation I had with Hans Magnus Enzensberger about the difficulties of writing political songs today that would go beyond the achievements of...
Bei diesem Stück handelt es sich um die gesamte, in Sonatenform geschriebene Musik zu dem Film éL'amour a mort' von Alain Resnais, die ich 1983 mit éThe Fires of London' in London in den Hammersmith S...
Jeder der drei Spieler kann seinen Part auch als Solo spielen; auch Duos (Viola/Gitarre, Viola/Orgel, Gitarre/Orgel) sind möglich.
