Hans Werner Henze: Advanced Sheet Music

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 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...

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...