Hans Werner Henze

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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 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...

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...

Written originally for the Russian Piano teacher Wladimir Horbowski, the manuscript for this piece has been missing from Henze's archives for any years before being rediscovered in 2003. The piece is...

I. Frogs want a king. They misunderstand Jupiter's warning against this stupid wish, whereupon he sends them a crane to eat them. II. In the past, the crows could sing beautifully. But when they try t...