Sheet Music Downloads by Hans Werner Henze

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...

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...

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...

konzertierende Gitarre und 15 Soloinstrumente

During the period in which these arrangements were created, Hans Werner Henze was far from being a Wagnerite. Despite this, he deliberately set out to study Wagner's music. Tristan und Isolde was the...

Dieses Stück habe ich 1949 komponiert mit dem Bestreben, den Begriff Sinfonik von der Vorstellung klassischer und romantischer Formen zu trennen. Der Hörer darf also hier nicht jene Elemente suchen wo...

Im Frühling 1957 schrieb ich Nachtstücke und Arien, mit Ingeborgs Gedichten Freies Geleit und Im Gewitter der Rosen. Das letztere bestand anfangs nur aus einem Vierzeiler bis sie mir für die Kompositi...

Like my oratorio Novae de infinito laudes, this work, too, has been influenced by the human world and the scenery of Rome, indeed, perhaps even by the greater hardness of the roman language compared t...

In der ersten Niederschrift meiner Oper König Hirsch (1953-1956) bestand der Schluss des zweiten Akts aus einem mythischen Gespräch zwischen dem Protagonisten und der Natur. Heinz von Cramer und ich n...

Sopran, Bariton, Sprechstimme, gemischter Chor (SSSSAAAATTTTBBBB, dazu 9 Knaben, S/A) und Orchester

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...

'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...

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...