Hans Werner Henze

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...

In contrast to many composerswho only began to write symphonies in their maturity, Hans Werner Henze composed his First Symphony when he was 20. Henze himself later described this original version as...

Dirigier- und Studienpartitur. Ein Orchesterklang zum Dahinschmelzen! Zum 200. Geburtstag Telemanns im Jahr 1967 instrumentierte Hans Werner Henze ein Quartett des Barockkomponisten neu. Heraus kam di...

Dirigier- und Studienpartitur. Ein Orchesterklang zum Dahinschmelzen! Zum 200. Geburtstag Telemanns im Jahr 1967 instrumentierte Hans Werner Henze ein Quartett des Barockkomponisten neu. Heraus kam di...

The second and third movements from Henze's Sonatina 1947 for solo piano orchestrated by Hans Abrahamsen. Premiered by the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in December 2019.

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 Kammersonate, for violin, cello and piano was composed in 1948 while Henze was working at the German theatre in Constance. It was the only chamber music written in a year which saw the composition...

This popular piece is now available in a version for viola. In close collaboration with Henze, the arranger Garth Knox created an edition in which the dynamics and phrasing have been made more precise...

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,...