Hans Werner Henze (born July 1, 1926 in Gütersloh, Westphalia, Germany) is a composer well known for his left-wing political beliefs. He left Germany for Italy in 1953 because of intolerance towards his politics and homosexuality. He continues to live in the village of Marino in the Lazio region of Italy. July 1 is the 182nd day of the year (183rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 183 days remaining. ... 1926 (MCMXXVI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... Gütersloh is a town in North Rhine-Westphalia, capital of the Gütersloh district. ... Composing is the art of organizing sound for later performance(s). ... 1953 (MCMLIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link is to a full 1953 calendar). ... The word homosexuality has acquired multiple meanings over time. ... Marino (postcode 5049) is a suburb in the south of Adelaide, South Australia. ... Latium (now Lazio in Italian) is a region of central Italy, bordered by Tuscany, Umbria, Abruzzo, Molise, Campania and the Tyrrhenian Sea. ...

An avowed Marxist and member of the Italian Communist Party, Henze has produced compositions honoring Ho Chi Minh and Che Guevara. The librettist of his requiem for Che Guevara, titled Das Floss der Medusa (The Raft of Medusa), was among several people arrested at the 1968 Hamburg premiere for placing a red flag on the stage. Henze spent a year teaching in Cuba, though he later became disillusioned with Castro. His music is extremely varied in style, having been influenced at various times by atonality, Italian music and jazz. Marxism is the political practice and social theory based on the works of Karl Marx, a 19th century philosopher, economist, journalist, and revolutionary, along with Friedrich Engels. ... This article is about communism as a form of society and as a political movement. ... Official portrait of Hồ Chí Minh Hồ Chí Minh (May 19, 1890 – September 2, 1969) was a Vietnamese revolutionary and statesman, who later became Prime Minister (1946-1955) and President (1955-1969) of North Vietnam. ... Ernesto Guevara de la Serna (June 14, 1928 â€“ October 9, 1967), commonly known as Che Guevara or el Che, was an Argentine-born physician, Marxist, politician, and leader of Cuban and internationalist guerrillas. ... The Requiem or Requiem Mass, also known formally (in Latin) as the Missa pro defunctis or Missa defunctorum, is a liturgical service of the Catholic Church and its Eastern Rite. ... Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (born August 13, 1926) is the current President of Cuba. ... Atonality describes music that does not conform to the system of tonal hierarchies, which characterizes the sound of classical European music between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries. ... Jazz is an original American musical art form originating around the start of the 20th century in New Orleans. ...

Life and works

Early years

Henze was the oldest of six children of a teacher, and showed early interest in art and music. This, along with his political standpoint, led to conflict with his conservative father. He began studies at the state music school of Braunschweig in 1942, but had to break off studies after being called up to the army in 1944, in the latter stages of the Second World War. He was soon captured and was held in a prisoner of war camp for the remainder of the war. In 1945 he became an accompanist in the Bielefeld City Theatre, and was able to continue his studies under Wolfgang Fortner in Heidelberg in 1946. A teachers room in a Japanese middle school, 2005. ... Braunschweig (historic English name Brunswick, Low Saxon Brunswiek) is a city of 245,500 people (as of December 31, 2004), located in Lower Saxony, Germany. ... This article is about the year. ... Conscript redirects here, but may also refer to artificial script. ... 1944 (MCMXLIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1944 calendar). ... Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km into the air. ... Prisoner of War camps Contents // Categories: Substubs | Prisons and detention centres ... 1945 (MCMXLV) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1945 calendar). ... The Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg (German Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg; also known as simply University of Heidelberg) was established in the town of Heidelberg in the Rhineland in 1386. ... 1946 (MCMXLVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday. ...

In his early years he worked with twelve-tone technique, for example in his First Symphony and Violin Concerto of 1947. In 1948 he became musical assistant at the Deutscher Theater in Konstanz, where his first opera Das Wundertheater (after Cervantes) was created. Twelve-tone technique (also dodecaphony) is a method of musical composition devised by Arnold Schoenberg. ... A violin The violin is a bowed stringed musical instrument that has four strings tuned a perfect fifth apart. ... In classical music, the word concerto (pl. ... 1947 (MCMXLVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1947 calendar). ... Konstanz (in English formerly known as Constance) is a university town of around 80,000 inhabitants at the eastern end of Lake Constance in the south-west corner of Germany, bordering Switzerland. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...

In 1950 he became ballet conductor at the Hessian State Theatre in Wiesbaden, where he composed two operas for radio, his First Piano Concerto as well as his first stage work of real note, the jazz-influenced opera Boulevard Solitude, a modern recasting of the traditional Manon Lescaut story. He also took part in the famous Darmstadt New Music Summer School, a key vehicle for the propagation of avant-garde techniques. 1950 (MCML) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... The Waltz of the Snowflakes from Tchaikovskys The Nutcracker. ... Look up conductor in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Wiesbaden is a city in central Germany. ... A baby grand piano, with the lid up. ... Boulevard Solitutde is a one act opera by German composer Hans Werner Henze, premiered in Wiesbaden in 1951. ... Manon Lescaut is a novel by the abbé Prévost. ... Initiated in 1946 by Wolfgang Steinecke, the Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik (Darmstadt new music summer courses), held annually until 1970 and subsequently every two years, encompass both the teaching of composition and interpretation and include premières of new works. ... A work similar to Marcel Duchamps Fountain Avant garde (written avant-garde) is a French phrase, one of many French phrases used by English speakers. ...

Move to Italy

In 1953 he left Germany in disappointment, reacting against homophobia and the country's general political climate, and moved to Italy, where he has remained for most of the rest of his life. Initially he suffered further disappointment, with disputed premieres of the opera König Hirsch, based on a text by Carlo Gozzi, and the ballet Maratona, with a libretto by Luchino Visconti. However, he then began long-lasting and fruitful co-operation with the poet Ingeborg Bachmann. Working with her as librettist, her composed the operas Der Prinz von Homburg (1958) based on a text by Heinrich von Kleist and Der junge Lord (1964) after Wilhelm Hauff as well as Serenades and Arias (1957) und his Choral Fantasy (1964). 1953 (MCMLIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link is to a full 1953 calendar). ... The word homophobia means fear of, aversion to, or discrimination against homosexuality or homosexuals. ... König Hirsch (in English, The Stag King) is an opera in three acts by Hans Werner Henze to an German libretto by Heinz von Cramer after a fable by Carlo Gozzi. ... Carlo, Count Gozzi (13 December 1720 – April 4, 1806), was an Italian dramatist. ... A libretto is the complete body of words used in an extended musical work such as an opera, operetta, masque, sacred or secular oratorio and cantata, musical, and ballet. ... Luchino Visconti, Duke of Modrone (November 2, 1906 - March 17, 1976) was an Italian theatre and cinema director and writer. ... Ingeborg Bachmann (June 25, 1926 Klagenfurt, Austria - October 17, 1973 Rome, Italy) was an Austrian poet and author. ... Der Prinz von Homburg (The Prince of Homburg) is an opera in three acts by Hans Werner Henze. ... 1958 (MCMLVIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Bernd Heinrich Wilhelm von Kleist (October 18, 1777 – November 21, 1811) was a German poet, dramatist and novelist. ... Der junge Lord (The Young Lord) is an opera in two acts by Hans Werner Henze to an German libretto by Ingeborg Bachmann after Wilhelm Hauffs Der Affe als Mensch from Der Scheik von Alexandria und seine Sklaven. ... 1964 (MCMLXIV) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1964 calendar). ... Wilhelm Hauff (November 29, 1802 - November 18, 1827), German poet and novelist, was born at Stuttgart, the son of a secretary in the ministry of foreign affairs. ... 1957 (MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

From 1962 until 1967, Henze taught masterclasses in composition at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, and in 1967 became a visiting Professor at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire. One of his greatest successes was the premiere of the opera Die Bassariden at the Salzburg Festival. 1962 (MCMLXII) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1962 calendar). ... 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar (the link is to a full 1967 calendar). ... Musical composition is: an original piece of music the structure of a musical piece the process of creating a new piece of music // A musical composition A piece of music exists in the form of a written composition in musical notation or as a single acoustic event (a live performance... We dont have an article called Mozarteum Start this article Search for Mozarteum in. ... Flag of Salzburg Salzburg (population 145,000 in 2005) is a city in western Austria and the capital of the federal state of Salzburg (population 520,000 in 2003). ... Dartmouth College is a private academic institution in Hanover, New Hampshire, in the United States. ... Official language(s) English Capital Concord Largest city Manchester Area  Ranked 46th  - Total 9,359 sq. ... The Bassarids (in German, Die Bassariden) is an opera in one act and an intermezzo by Hans Werner Henze to an English libretto by W H Auden and Chester Kallman after Euripidess The Bacchae. ...

In the following period, he greatly strengthened his political involvement which also influenced his musical work. For example, the premiere of his oratorio Das Floss der Medusa in Hamburg failed when his West Berlin collaborators refused to perform under a portrait of Che Guevara and a revolutionary flag which his librettist had placed upon the stage. His politics also greatly influenced his Sixth Symphony (1969), Second Violin Concerto (1971) and his piece for spoken word and chamber orchestra, El Cimarron, based on a book by Cuban author Miguel Barnet about escaped black slaves during Cuba's colonial period. An oratorio is a large musical composition for orchestra, vocal soloists and chorus. ... Hamburgs Motto: May the posterity endeavour with dignity to conserve the freedom, which the forefathers acquired. ... Boroughs of West Berlin West Berlin was the name given to the western part of Berlin between 1949 and 1990. ... Ernesto Guevara de la Serna (June 14, 1928 â€“ October 9, 1967), commonly known as Che Guevara or el Che, was an Argentine-born physician, Marxist, politician, and leader of Cuban and internationalist guerrillas. ... 1969 (MCMLXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1969 calendar). ... 1971 (MCMLXXI) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1971 calendar). ... Miguel Barnet (1940-) is a Cuban writer, novelist and ethnographer. ... The Buxton Memorial Fountain, celebrating the emancipation of slaves in the British Empire in 1834, London. ...

An established composer

His political critique reached its high point in 1976 with the premiere of his opera We Come to the River. 1976 (MCMLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday. ... We Come to the River is an opera described as Actions for music in two parts (11 scenes) by Hans Werner Henze to an English libretto by Edward Bond. ...

In 1976, Henze founded the Cantiere Internazionale d´Arte in Montepulciano for the promotion of new music, where his children's opera Pollicino premiered in 1980. From 1980 until 1991 he led a class in composition in the Cologne Music School. In 1981 he founded the Mürztal Workshops in the Austrian region of Styria, the same region where he set up the Deutschlandsberg Youth Music Festival in 1984. Finally, in 1988, he founded the Munich Biennale, an "international festival for new music theatre", of which he was the artistic director. Montepulciano is a town, situated in Central Tuscany. ... 1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday. ... 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Köln redirects here. ... Styria (Steiermark in German, Štajerska in Slovenian) can refer to: Styria - a federal state of Austria Styria - an informal province in Slovenia Styria - a duchy of the Holy Roman Empire and crownland of Austria-Hungary This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise... 1984 (MCMLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Munich (German: München, (pronounced listen) is the capital of the German Federal State of Bavaria (German: Freistaat Bayern). ...

His own operas became more conventional once more, for example the 1983 The English Cat and Das verratene Meer (1990) based on the novel Gogo no Eiko by Japanese author Yukio Mishima. 1983 (MCMLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Die englische Katze (The English Cat) is an opera in two acts by Hans Werner Henze to an German libretto by Edward Bond, based on Peines de coeur dune chatte anglaise by Balzac. ... Das verratene Meer is an opera in two parts by Hans Werner Henze to an German libretto by Hans-Ulrich Treichel after Yukio Mishimas novel The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea. ... This article is about the year. ... Yukio Mishima (三島由紀夫 Mishima Yukio), was the public name of Kimitake Hiraoka (平岡公威 Hiraoka Kimitake), (January 14, 1925 - November 25, 1970), a Japanese author and considered a right-wing political activist, notable for both his nihilistic post-war writing and the circumstances of his suicide. ...

His later works, while arguably less controversial, continued his political and social engagement. His Requiem (1990) comprised nine spiritual concertos for piano, trumpet and chamber orchestra, and was written in memory of the musician Michael Vyner who died young. The Ninth Symphony for mixed choir and orchestra (1997), including verses from the novel The Seventh Cross by Anna Seghers is a coming to terms with the darkest parts of Germany's past, with which Henze himself lived as a child and teenager. His most recent success was the 2003 premiere of the opera L'Upupa und der Triumph der Sohnesliebe at the Salzburg Festival, based on a Syrian fairy tale. A choir or chorus is a musical ensemble of singers. ... 1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Anna Seghers (November 19, 1900 - June 1, German writer who was born in Mainz and died in Berlin. ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... LUpupa und der Triumph der Sohnesliebe (English: The Hoopoe and the Triumph of Filial Love) is an opera by Hans Werner Henze with a German libretto by the composer, inspired by Arab and Persian legends. ...

In 1995 Henze received the Westphalian Music Prize, which has carried his name since 2001. On 7 November 2004 Henze received an honorary doctorate for 'musical science' from the Munich Conservatory and Theater School. 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 2001: A Space Odyssey. ... November 7 is the 311th day of the year (312th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 54 days remaining. ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Style

Henze's music has incorporated neo-classicism, jazz, the twelve tone technique, serialism, and some rock or popular music. He was taught by the German composer Wolfgang Fortner, and his 1947 Violin Concerto shows that he could write excellently in the 12-tone style. Later however, he reacted against atonalism and his opera Bouvelard Solitude includes elements of jazz and Parisian popular music. After his move to Italy in 1953, his music became considerably more Neapolitan in style, with lush, rich textures in the opera König Hirsch, and even more so in the opulent ballet music that he wrote for English choreographer Frederick Ashton's Ondine, completed in 1957. Henze received much of the impetus for his ballet music from his earlier job as ballet adviser at the Wiesbaden State Theatre. Ondine is classical in appearance, but contains some jazz and, although Mendelssohn and Weber were important influences for this composition, plenty of it is redolent of Stravinsky, not only Stravinsky as a neo-classical composer, but also as the composer of The Rite of Spring. The textures for the cantata Kammermusik are far harsher, however, and later Henze returned to atonalism in Antifone, and later again other styles mentioned above became important in his music. Political considerations have often played a part in shaping Henze's style at different times in his career. Neoclassicism (sometimes rendered as Neo-Classicism or Neo-classicism) is the name given to quite distinct movements in the visual arts, literature, theatre, music, and architecture. ... Jazz is an original American musical art form originating around the start of the 20th century in New Orleans. ... Twelve-tone technique is a system of musical composition devised by Arnold Schoenberg. ... Serialism is a technique for composing music so that each tone of a row sounds before any tone repeats. ... Rock, Rock n Roll, or Rock and Roll is a form of popular music, usually featuring vocals (often with vocal harmony), electric guitars, a bass guitar, and a strong back beat; other instruments, such as keyboards (organ, piano synthesizers) and brass (trumpet, trombone) are common in some styles, however, horns... Popular music is music belonging to any of a number of musical styles that are accessible to the general public and mostly distributed commercially. ... 1947 (MCMXLVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1947 calendar). ... König Hirsch (in English, The Stag King) is an opera in three acts by Hans Werner Henze to an German libretto by Heinz von Cramer after a fable by Carlo Gozzi. ... The Waltz of the Snowflakes from Tchaikovskys The Nutcracker. ... Sir Frederick William Mallandaine Ashton (September 17, 1904 - October 18, 1988) began his career as a dancer but is largely remembered as a choreographer. ... Ondine ( June 16, 1937 - January 1, 1989) met Andy Warhol in 1961 at an orgy, and died of liver disease in Queens, New York, New York, USA in 1989. ... Mendelssohn (or Mendelsohn) can refer to several subjects. ... Carl Maria von Weber Carl Maria Friedrich Ernst von Weber (born November 18 or November 19, 1786, in Eutin near Lübeck, Germany; died June 5, 1826, of tuberculosis, in London, England) was a German composer. ... Igor Fyodorovitch Stravinsky () (June 17, 1882 – April 6, 1971) was a composer of modern classical music. ... Le Sacre du printemps (English: The Rite of Spring; Russian: Весна священная) is a ballet with music by the Russian composer Igor Stravinsky. ...

Works

Operas, music-theatre and other dramatic works

• Das Wundertheater (1948, premiere 1949)
• Die Gefangenen. (1950)
• Boulevard Solitude (1951, premiere 1952)
• Ein Landarzt. radio opera (1951; stage version 1964, premiere 1965; revised 1994)
• Der tolle Tag. (1951; withdrawn)
• Sodom und Gomorrha. (1952)
• Das Ende einer Welt. radio opera (1953; stage version 1964, premiere 1965; revised 1993)
• König Hirsch (1952-55, premiere 1956; revised 1962 as Il re cervo oder Die Irrfahrten der Wahrheit, premiere 1963)
• Der sechste Gesang. (1955)
• Die Zikaden (1955; withdrawn)
• Der Prinz von Homburg (1958, premiere 1960; new orchestration 1991)
• Elegy for Young Lovers (Elegie für junge Liebende) (1959-61, premiere 1961; revised 1987)
• Les caprices de Marianne. (1962; withdrawn)
• Muriel. (1963; a film score)
• Der Frieden. (1964)
• The Bassarids (Die Bassariden) (1964-65, premiere 1966)
• Der junge Lord (1964, premiere 1965)
• Der junge Törless. (1966; a film score)
• Moralities (1967, premiere 1968; revised 1970)
• Der langwierige Weg in die Wohnung der Natascha Ungeheuer (1971)
• La Cubana, oder Ein Leben für die Kunst (1973, premiere 1974; chamber version La piccola Cubana 1990-91)
• We Come to the River (1974-76, premiere 1976)
• Die verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum. (1975; a film score)
• Der Taugenichts. (1977)
• The Woman. (1978; withdrawn)
• Pollicino (1979-80, premiere 1980)
• Montezuma (1980; a film score)
• The English Cat (1980-83, premiere 1983; revised 1990)
• Nach Lissabon. (1982)
• Un amour de Swann. (1983; a film score)
• L'amour à mort. (1984)
• Das verratene Meer (1986-89, premiere 1990)
• Venus und Adonis (1993-95, premiere 1997)
• L'Upupa und der Triumph der Sohnesliebe (2000-03, premiere 2003)

Boulevard Solitutde is a one act opera by German composer Hans Werner Henze, premiered in Wiesbaden in 1951. ... König Hirsch (in English, The Stag King) is an opera in three acts by Hans Werner Henze to an German libretto by Heinz von Cramer after a fable by Carlo Gozzi. ... Der Prinz von Homburg (The Prince of Homburg) is an opera in three acts by Hans Werner Henze. ... Elegy for Young Lovers (in German, Elegie für junge Liebende) is an opera in three acts by Hans Werner Henze to an English libretto by W H Auden and Chester Kallman. ... The Bassarids (in German, Die Bassariden) is an opera in one act and an intermezzo by Hans Werner Henze to an English libretto by W H Auden and Chester Kallman after Euripidess The Bacchae. ... Der junge Lord (The Young Lord) is an opera in two acts by Hans Werner Henze to an German libretto by Ingeborg Bachmann after Wilhelm Hauffs Der Affe als Mensch from Der Scheik von Alexandria und seine Sklaven. ... We Come to the River is an opera described as Actions for music in two parts (11 scenes) by Hans Werner Henze to an English libretto by Edward Bond. ... Die englische Katze (The English Cat) is an opera in two acts by Hans Werner Henze to an German libretto by Edward Bond, based on Peines de coeur dune chatte anglaise by Balzac. ... Das verratene Meer is an opera in two parts by Hans Werner Henze to an German libretto by Hans-Ulrich Treichel after Yukio Mishimas novel The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea. ... Venus und Adonis is a one-act opera by Hans Werner Henze with a German libretto by Hans-Ulrich Treichel, after the poem by William Shakespeare. ... LUpupa und der Triumph der Sohnesliebe (English: The Hoopoe and the Triumph of Filial Love) is an opera by Hans Werner Henze with a German libretto by the composer, inspired by Arab and Persian legends. ...

Symphonies

• Symphony no. 1. (1947; revised 1963 and 1991)
• Symphony no. 2. (1949)
• Symphony no. 3. (1949-50)
• Symphony no. 4. (1955)
• Vokalsinfonie. (1955; this is taken from König Hirsch)
• Symphony no. 5. (1962)
• Symphony no. 6. (1969; revised 1994)
• Symphony no. 7. (1983-4)
• Symphony no. 8. (1992-3)
• Symphony no. 9. (1995-7)
• Symphony no. 10. (1997-2000)

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Other works for large forces

• Kammerkonzert. (1946)
• Concertino. (1947)
• Violin Concerto no.1. (1947)
• Suite. (1949)
• Piano Concerto no.1. (1950)
• Sinfonische Variationen. (1950; withdrawn)
• Sinfonische Zwischenspiele. (1951)
• Tancredi. (1952)
• Tanz und Salonmusik. (1952; revised 1989)
• Ode an den Westwind. (1953)
• Quattro poemi. (1955)
• Sinfonische Etüden. (1956; revised as Drei sinfonische Etüden in 1964)
• Maratona. (1956)
• Jeux des Tritons. (1956-7; revised 1967)
• Hochzeitsmusik. (1957)
• Sonata per archi. (1957-8)
• Drei Dithyramben. (1958)
• Trois pas des Triton. (1958)
• Undine, suite no.1. (1958)
• Undine, suite no.2. (1958)
• Antifone. (1960)
• Los caprichos. (1963)
• Zwischenspiele. (1964)
• Mänadentanz. (1965)
• In memoriam: die weisse Rose. (1965)
• Double Bass Concerto. (1966)
• Double Concerto. (1966)
• Fantasia for strings. (1966)
• Piano Concerto no.2. (1967)
• Telemanniana. (1967)
• Compases para preguntas ensimismadas. (1969–70)
• Violin Concerto no.2. (1971; revised 1991)
• Heliogabalus imperator, allegoria per musica. (1971–2; revised 1986)
• Tristan. (1972–3)
• Katharina Blum. (1975; a film score)
• Ragtimes and Habaneras. (1975)
• Aria de la folía española. (1977)
• Il Vitalino raddoppiato. (1977)
• Apollo trionfante. (1979)
• Arien des Orpheus. (1979)
• Barcarola (1979)
• Dramatische Szenen aus ‘Orpheus’ I. (1979)
• Spielmusiken. (1979–80)
• Deutschlandsberger Mohrentanz no.1 (1984)
• Kleine Elegien. (1984–5)
• Liebeslieder. (1984–5)
• Deutschlandsberger Mohrentanz no.2(1985)
• Fandango. (1985; revised 1992)
• Cinque piccoli concerti e ritornelli. (1987)
• Requiem: 9 geistliche Konzerte (1990–92)
• La selva incantata, aria and rondo (1991)
• Introduktion, Thema und Variationen (1992)
• Appassionatamente, fantasia (1993–4)
• Erlkönig, fantasia (1996)
• Pulcinellas Erzählungen. (1996)
• Sieben Boleros. (1996)
• Violin Concerto no.3, Three portraits from T. Mann's Doktor Faustus. (1996)
• Zigeunerweisen und Sarabanden. (1996)
• Fraternité, air. (1999)
• A Tempest, rounds. (2000)
• Scorribanda Sinfonica. (2000–01)
• L’heure bleue. (2001)

Ballets

• Ballet-Variationen (1949, first staged 1958; revised 1992)
• Jack Pudding (1949, premiere 1950; withdrawn)
• Das Vokaltuch der Kammersängerin Rosa Silber (1950, first staged 1958; revised 1990)
• Le Tombeau d'Orphée (1950, withdrawn)
• Labyrinth (1951, premiere 1952; revised 1996)
• Der Idiot (1952, premiere 1952; revised 1990)
• Pas d’action (1952; withdrawn)
• Maratona (1956, premiere 1957)
• Undine (1956-7, premiere 1958)
• L’usignolo dell’imperatore (1959, premiere 1959)
• Tancredi (1964, premiere 1966)
• Orpheus (1978, premiere 1979)
• Le disperazioni del Signor Pulcinella (1992-5, premiere 1997; this ballet is an extended and revised version of Jack Pudding)
• Le fils de l'air (1995-6, premiere 1997)

Choral

• Fünf Madrigäle. (1947)
• Chor gefangener Trojer. (1948; revised 1964)
• Wiegenlied der Mutter Gottes. (1948)
• Jüdische Chronik. (1960)
• Novae de infinito laudes. (1962)
• Cantata della fiaba estrema. (1963)
• Lieder von einer Insel. (1964)
• Muzen Siziliens. (1966)
• Das Floss der ‘Medusa’. (1968; revised 1990)
• Mad People's Madrigal. (1974–6)
• Orpheus Behind the Wire. (1981–3)
• Hirtenlieder. (1993–5)

Vocal solo

• Sechs Lieder. (1945; withdrawn)
• Whispers from Heavenly Death. (1948; revised 1999)
• Der Vorwurf. (1948; withdrawn)
• Apollo et Hyazinthus. (1948–9)
• Chanson Pflastersteine. (1950; withdrawn)
• Fünf neapolitanische Lieder. (1956)
• Nachtstücke und Arien. (1957)
• Kammermusik 1958. (1958; revised 1963)
• Drei Fragmente nach Hölderlin. (1958)
• Three Arias. (1960; revised 1993)
• Ariosi. (1963)
• Being Beauteous. (1963)
• Ein Landarzt. (1964)
• Versuch über Schweine. (1968)
• El Cimarrón. (1969–70)
• Voices. (1973)
• Heb doch die Stimme an. (1975)
• Kindermund. (1975)
• El rey de Harlem. (1979)
• Three Auden Songs. (1983)
• Drei Lieder über den Schnee. (1989)
• An Sascha. (1991)
• Zwei Konzertarien (1991)
• Lieder und Tänze. (1992–3)
• Heilige Nacht. (1993)
• Heimlich zur Nacht. (1994)
• Nocturnal Serenade. (1996)
• Sechs Gesänge aus dem Arabischen. (1997–8)

Chamber

• Kleines Quartett. (1945; withdrawn)
• Sonata. (1946)
• Sonatina. (1947)
• String Quartet no.1. (1947)
• Kammersonate. (1948; revised 1963)
• String Quartet no.2. (1952)
• Wind Quintet. (1952)
• Concerto per il Marigny. (1956; withdrawn)
• Quattro fantasie. (1963)
• Divertimenti. (1964)
• Der junge Törless. (1966)
• L'usignolo dell'imperatore. (1970)
• Fragmente aus einer Show. (1971)
• Prison Song. (1971)
• Carillon, Récitatif, Masque. (1974)
• String Quartet no.3. (1975–6)
• Amicizia!. (1976)
• String Quartet no.4. (1976)
• String Quartet no.5. (1976)
• Konzertstück. (1977–85)
• L'autunno. (1977)
• Trauer-Ode für Margaret Geddes. (1977)
• Sonata. (1978–9)
• Sonatina. (1979)
• Le miracle de la rose (Imaginäres Theater II). (1981)
• Variation. (1981)
• Von Krebs zu Krebs. (1981)
• Canzona. (1982)
• Sonata. (1983)
• Sonata. (1984)
• Selbst- und Zwiegespräche. (1984–5)
• Ode an eine Äolsharfe. (1985–6)
• Eine kleine Hausmusik. (1986)
• Allegra e Boris. (1987)
• Fünf Nachtstücke. (1990)
• Paraphrasen über Dostojewsky. (1990)
• Piano Quintet. (1990–91)
• Adagio. (1992)
• Adagio, Serenade. (1993)
• Drei geistliche Konzerte. (1994–6)
• Notturno. (1995)
• Leçons de danse. (1996)
• Minotauros Blues. (1996)
• Neue Volkslieder und Hirtengesänge. (1996)
• Voie lactée ô soeur lumineuse. (1996)
• Drei Märchenbilder. (1997)
• Ein kleines Potpourri. (2000)

Instrumental

• Sonatina. (1947; withdrawn)
• Serenade. (1949)
• Variationen. (1949)
• Drei Tentos. (1958)
• Piano Sonata. (1959)
• Six Absences. (1961)
• Lucy Escott Variations. (1963)
• Memorias de ‘El Cimarrón’. (1970)
• Sonatina. (1974)
• Royal Winter Music, sonata no.1. (1975–6)
• Capriccio. (1976; revised 1981)
• Sonata. (1976–7; revised 1992)
• Ländler. (1977; withdrawn)
• S. Biagio 9 agosto ore 12.07. (1977)
• Five Scenes from the Snow Country. (1978)
• Margareten-Walzer. (1978)
• Epitaph. (1979)
• Etude philarmonique. (1979)
• Royal Winter Music, sonata no.2. (1979)
• Toccata senza fuga. (1979)
• Drei Märchenbilder. (1980)
• Sechs Stücke für junge Pianisten. (1980)
• Cherubino. (1980–81)
• Euridice. (1981; revised 1992)
• Une petite phrase. (1984)
• Serenade. (1986)
• La mano sinistra. (1988)
• Piece for Peter. (1988)
• Clavierstück. (1989)
• Für Manfred (1989)
• Das Haus Ibach. (1991)
• Pulcinella disperato, fantasia. (1991–2)
• Minette. (1992)
• An Brenton. (1993)
• Für Reinhold. (1994)
• Toccata mistica. (1994)
• Serenata notturna. (1996)
• Olly on the Shore. (2001)

Arrangements

• Die schlafende Prinzessin. (1951; withdrawn)
• Don Chisciotte. (1976)
• Jephte (orat, orch of Carissimi). (1976)
• Wesendonck-Lieder (1976)
• Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria. (1981)
• I sentimenti di Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach. (1982)
• Der Mann, der vom Tode auferstand. (1988)
• Fürwahr ...?!. (1988)
• Drei Mozartsche Orgelsonaten. (1991)
• Il re Teodoro in Venezia. (1991–2)
• Drei Orchesterstücke. (1995)
• Richard Wagnersche Klavierlieder. (1998–9)

References

• Hans Werner Henze. (1998). Bohemian Fifths: An Autobiography. London (Faber & Faber).
• Hans Werner Henze. (1998). Reiselieder mit böhmischen Quinten: Autobiographische Mitteilungen. 1926-1995. Frankfurt (Fischer).

External links

• Schott: Hans Werner Henze
• Schirmer: Hans Werner Henze
• Chester-Novello: Hans Werner Henze
• Sequenza21: Hans Werner Henze