Hans Werner Henze

Henze's Fünf Botschafen Für Die Königin Von Saba was commissioned by Radio France. It received its première on 3rd February 2005 at the Thé tre Des Champs-Élysées, Paris by the Orchestre National de F...

Phaedra by German composer Hans Werner Henze is a 'concert opera' in two acts whose first performance was given at the Berlin State Opera in 2007. Phaedra was Henze's penultimate opera, and this item...

Hans Werner Henze's Sebastian im Traum was commissioned by the Eduard van Beinum Stichting, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Tonhalle-Gesellschaft, and the New York Philharmonic, and given its f...

This music is taken from the second act of my early opera King Stag. In the original, the aria - here rescored for the orchestra alone - is sung by the protagonist (tenor) who yearns to return to the...

6 Blockflöten (SSAATB), Kornett, 2 Posaunen (AT), Schlagzeug, Harfe, Zither, Laute, Orgel, Violine, Viola und Violoncello. Im Jahre 1966 schrieb ich die Musik zu Volker Schlöndorffs erstem Film 'Der j...

In October of 1997, I received an invitation from New York Philharmonic Music Director Kurt Masur asking me to contribute a musical message for the coming millennium. Maestro Masur's letter read 'My d...

Bei der Neuschrift des Stücks im Winter 1995-96, fünfzig Jahre nach seiner Entstehung (als Bühnenmusik zu Molières Comédie ballet Georges Dandin, aus der anschließend ein Ballett wurde mit dem englisc...

Symphony No. 6 was created in the late 1960s, and was first performed in Havana on 26. November 1969 by the Cuban National Orchestra under my direction. This symphony reflects not only the excited atm...