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In this work, I had wanted completely to submit to the traditional rules of the classical symphony so as to mould my musical expression as if in a furnace and enable it to reach the listener as direct...

Dirigier- und Studienpartitur

Dirigier- und Studienpartitur

'My Sinfonia No. 8 is not at all tragic or moody like the Seventh. It is a summer piece and is based on three moments from Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream', writes Hans Werner Henze. This, how...

Fantasie über 'Das verratene Meer' für großes Orchester

These are free arrangements of three movements from Hartmann's Piano Sonata '27. April 1945.' Hartmann wrote the Sonata after witnessing endless columns of emaciated prisoners leaving the Dachau conce...

One of my earliest works for orchestra, this piece was strongly influenced by the aural and visual impressions left by the London Sadler's Wells Ballett's visit to Hamburg in 1949.- Hans Werner Henze

There is no greater virtue befitting to Mankind than faith, which manifested, doth friendship firmly bind.' This verse was written by Simon Dach, the leader of the Könisberg circle of poets, during th...

Das Konzert für Violine und Orchester von György Ligeti steht in der Tradition großer virtuoser Violinkonzerte und wurde 1990 auf Anregung des Geigers Saschko Gawriloff komponiert. Die ursprünglich dr...

The theme of Henze's Ninth Symphony is his German homeland as he remembers it during the days of his youth and during the war years. He has written this work in homage to all the people who fought bac...

The last major project of his life, The Dreamer That Remains, was composed while Harry Partch was being filmed from the beginning of his work until the world premiere in 1972. The resulting documentar...

Harry Partch (1901-1974), one of the greatest and most individualistic composers of all time, who created dozens of incredible instruments for the performance of his music, created one of the most ama...