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...
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...