Hans Werner Henze

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Hans Werner Henze (born July 1, 1926 in Gütersloh ; † October 27, 2012 in Dresden ) was a German composer . He is one of the most important German composers of the 20th century.

Hans Werner Henze (1960)

Life

Childhood and youth, life until 1945

Henze was born the first of six children to the teacher Franz Henze (1898–1945) and his wife Margarete Adele (née Geldmacher, 1907–1976) and showed an early interest in art and music. As a teenager, because of his political attitudes, he came into conflict with his father, who was a member of the NSDAP and wanted to send him to a Waffen-SS music school . When Hans Werner Henze's homosexual inclination became apparent, his father is said to have said that “something like him belongs in the concentration camp”. 1942 Henze began studying at the State Music School Braunschweig in the subjects piano and drums . At the beginning of 1944 he was called up for the Reich Labor Service , a few months later as a radio operator for the Wehrmacht . The experiences of this time led to a feeling of complicity, but also to a lifelong passionate rejection of war and fascism.

An index card found in February 2009 in the NSDAP membership file in the Federal Archives lists Henze as a party member of the NSDAP. As a result, the application for admission to the NSDAP was made on January 18, 1944 and took place on April 20, 1944. Henze, who was 17 years old at the time, did not have a signed application for admission. Henze denied ever having submitted a corresponding application for membership.

1945–1990

After a brief British captivity , Henze became a répétiteur at the Bielefeld City Theater in 1945 . From 1946 he continued his studies with Wolfgang Fortner at what was then the church music institute in Heidelberg and in Fortner's domicile in the Villa Braunbehrens , and at the age of 23 he was dubbed "his best student" by the press. Fortner, however, refused to teach Henze the twelve-tone technique : he called it "done", whereupon the student taught himself Schönberg's composition technique before studying it in 1949 with René Leibowitz in Darmstadt and Paris. In his first compositions, Henze actively dealt with the twelve-tone technique, but linked it with neoclassical style, for example in the 1st Symphony and the 1st Violin Concerto (1947).

In 1948 Henze became Heinz Hilpert's musical assistant at the Konstanz Theater , and his first opera Das Wundertheater (based on Miguel de Cervantes ) was written. In 1950 he moved to the Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden as artistic director and conductor of the ballet . After two radio operas as well as several symphonies and solo concerts, he finally established himself as one of the leading composers of his generation with the full-length opera Boulevard Solitude , which premiered in Hanover in 1952 and is a modern version of the Manon Lescaut material .

Disappointed by two things - by the politically restorative climate in West Germany and by parts of the criticism that, under the influence of the Darmstadt holiday courses , demanded consistent serial music (which Henze felt as a restriction of creativity) - he moved to Italy in 1953. First he moved to Forio on Ischia , where he maintained lively contact and exchange with the intellectual colony located there (including Wystan Hugh Auden , Golo Mann and William Walton ). From 1956 he lived in Naples , later in Rome and Castel Gandolfo , until he finally found his permanent residence in Marino in the Alban Hills .

Hans Werner Henze, 1960

A close friendship connected him with the poet Ingeborg Bachmann , with whom he lived for a time. Bachmann wrote the libretti for his operas The Prince of Homburg (1958; after Heinrich von Kleist ) and The Young Lord (1964; after Wilhelm Hauff ), Henze the music for her radio play Die Zikaden (1954). Together they created the night pieces and arias (1957) and the songs from an island (1964).

In 1964 he met the twenty-year-old Fausto Moroni, whom he would later make his adoptive son; both formed a community until Moroni's death in 2007.

Henze joined the Communist Party of Italy (KPI) ; His political commitment made headlines in Germany, for example in 1968, when the premiere of the oratorio Das Raft der Medusa (with text by Ernst Schnabel ) failed because West Berlin participants did not want to appear under a portrait of Che Guevara and a red flag , or in 1969/70, when he demonstratively took over a teaching position in Havana and conducted the world premiere of his 6th symphony. During this time, the recital El Cimarrón was written , in which he interprets the life story of a runaway slave together with the librettist Hans Magnus Enzensberger . With the opera We Come to the River by Edward Bond , Henze's socially critical art reached another high point in 1976.

As the first festival for the dissemination of new music , Henze founded the Cantiere Internazionale d'Arte in Montepulciano in 1976 , where his children's opera Pollicino was premiered in 1980 . From 1980 to 1991 he led a composition class at the Cologne University of Music . He founded the Mürz Valley Music Workshops in 1981 , the Deutschlandsberg Youth Music Festival in 1984 and finally the Munich Biennale in 1988 , an "International Festival for New Music Theater", whose artistic direction he handed over to Peter Ruzicka in 1996 . Meanwhile, his own operas were oriented more towards traditional forms again, such as The English Cat (1983, libretto by Edward Bond) and The betrayed sea (1990, libretto by Hans-Ulrich Treichel based on the novel Gogo no Eiko by Yukio Mishima ).

After 1990

Human and political commitment also shape his later works. Henze wrote the so-called Requiem (1992), consisting of nine sacred concertos for piano, trumpet and chamber orchestra, in memory of the musician Michael Vyner, who died early; the 9th Symphony for mixed choir and orchestra (1995–1997) with verses by Hans-Ulrich Treichel based on the novel The Seventh Cross by Anna Seghers is an examination of German history. At the invitation of Walter Fink , Henze was the tenth composer in the annual composer portrait of the Rheingau Music Festival in 2000 . Among other things, his Requiem was performed.

New stage works by Henze were also performed afterwards: at the Salzburg Festival in 2003 L'Ùpupa and the Triumph of Son's Love and in 2006 the third, definitive version of Gogo no Eiko ( The betrayed sea , under Gerd Albrecht , who asked the composer to continue working on the work had motivated). The premiere of the concert opera Phaedra (libretto: Christian Lehnert ) took place on September 6, 2007 at the Berlin State Opera Unter den Linden ; it was played by the Ensemble Modern under the direction of Michael Boder . During the work the composer suffered a severe attack of weakness in 2005; Shortly after the completion of the work, his partner and adoptive son Fausto Moroni (1944–2007), whom he met in 1964 in an antique shop, died in April 2007.

Until the 1990s, Henze conducted regularly, mostly his own works, and - more rarely - also staged. He has u. a. worked with his youngest brother, the set designer Jürgen Henze (* 1942), who was also assistant set designer for films by Rainer Werner Fassbinder ( Berlin Alexanderplatz ) and Andrzej Wajda ( Eine Liebe in Deutschland ) .

Last years

Henze's grave in Marino

Already badly marked by old age and illness, he was able to attend the oratorio Das Raft der Medusa (conducted by Simon Rattle ), which was performed again on the occasion of his 80th birthday in 2006 in the Berlin Philharmonic .

Hans Werner Henze died on October 27, 2012 at the age of 86 in Dresden. Shortly before, on September 13th, the first premiere of the 2012/13 season had taken place at the Semperoper with Henze's anti-war opera We reach the river - We come to the river in the presence of the composer. Henze's adopted home was Marino in the province of Rome, where he was buried on November 5, 2012.

plant

Henze has always resisted the commitment to a certain style or technique. Contrary to the current of the so-called Darmstadt School, he renounced the strictly serial organization of his works and composed eclecticism . In 1967 he said: “Soon the clusters , the serial recitatives and the happenings will finally be exhausted, and the young composer will look in vain in such wasteland for food for his hungry soul.” An important role model for Henze was Igor Stravinsky , who turned to neoclassicism after his experimental phase .

The focus of Henze's work is formed by the stage compositions, which, thanks to the composer's enormous dramaturgical instinct and the mix of different musical styles and directions that are suitable for the stage, have become unusually large audiences for contemporary musical works. Open to musical and literary tradition and the present throughout his life, he developed classical models in dialogue with contemporary authors: Grete Weil worked on the Manon-Lescaut material for him , which the librettists of Massenet and Puccini had already taken up; together with Ingeborg Bachmann he discovered new potential in texts by Heinrich von Kleist ( The Prince of Homburg ) and Wilhelm Hauff . Other working partners for him were the writers WH Auden , Hans Magnus Enzensberger , Edward Bond , Hans-Ulrich Treichel and Christian Lehnert . His interest in "applied arts" and mass media also led him to film music; here he worked a. a. with the directors Alain Resnais and Volker Schlöndorff .

Henze was an explicitly political artist who never considered the apparently abstract technical aspects of composing as an end in itself, but as a possibility, e.g. For example, to take a stand by creating contrasts: the reactionary social class in the opera Boulevard Solitude is assigned a conservative tonality , while the outsiders Manon and Des Grieux are characterized as progressive by the twelve-tone technique; In We Come to the River , electronically amplified strings and low brass are assigned to the world of violence in extreme volume. Comparable conflicts emerge in the 9th Symphony; it is "dedicated to the heroes and martyrs of German anti-fascism".

Henze turned against the elitism of the classical cultural scene, but did not throw the burden of the educated bourgeois tradition overboard as obsolete, but presented opportunities for an enlightened, often playful and ironic examination of historical models from music, literature and painting. A few examples: In The English Cat , Henze based himself on Ludwig van Beethoven's Diabelli Variations ; in The Raft of Medusa, based on a libretto by Ernst Schnabel , he referred to the painting of the same name by Théodore Géricault ; in Tristan for piano, tapes and orchestra, an anonymous 14th century Florentine ballad and motifs by Richard Wagner , Johannes Brahms and Frédéric Chopin are processed; the ode to the west wind adapted the poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley ; the solo guitar works Royal Winter Music are musical portraits of the dramatic characters of William Shakespeare .

Compositions

Symphonies

  • 1st Symphony (1947) for large orchestra. WP (2nd movement) July 27, 1947 Darmstadt (conductor: Hermann Scherchen ); (complete) August 26, 1948 Bad Pyrmont (conductor: Wolfgang Fortner )
1.  Allegretto con grazia - 2.  Notturno - 3.  Allegro con moto
  • New version for chamber orchestra (1963; revised 1991). Premiere April 9, 1964 / October 2, 1991 Berlin ( Berliner Philharmoniker , conductor: Hans Werner Henze)
  • Version for 15 players: Chamber Concert 05 (2005). WP July 6, 2006 Munich (Opera Festival)
1.  Lento. Allegro - 2nd  Allegro molto vivace - 3rd  Adagio
1.  Invocation of Apollo - 2.  Dithyrambe - 3.  Summoning dance
  • Ballet version Invocation of Apollo , premiere October 28, 1951, Wiesbaden, costumes: Jean-Pierre Ponelle
  • 4th Symphony (in one movement; 1955) for large orchestra ("Forest Symphony": based on the forest scene from the finale of the 2nd act of the opera König Hirsch ). Premiere October 9, 1963 Berlin (Berliner Philharmoniker, conductor: Hans Werner Henze)
  • 5th Symphony (1962) for large orchestra. Premiere May 16, 1963 New York ( Lincoln Center , Avery Fisher Hall ; New York Philharmonic , conductor: Leonard Bernstein )
1.  Movimentato - 2.  Adagio - 3.  Moto perpetuo
  • Sinfonia N. 6 (1969; revised 1994) for two orchestras. Premiere November 26th 1969 Havana , Cuba (Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional, conductor: Hans Werner Henze)
1.  Allegro con moto - 2.  Lento - 3.  Allegro vivace
  • Symphony No. 7 (1983/84) for large orchestra. Premiere December 1, 1984 Berlin (Berliner Philharmoniker, conductor: Gianluigi Gelmetti )
1.  Dance - 2.  Quietly moved - 3.  Constantly in motion - 4.  Quiet, restrained
1.  Allegro - 2.  Allegramente con comodo tenerezza e ballabilità - 3.  Adagio
  • Sinfonia N. 9 (1995–1997): see under Vocal Works for Choir and Ensemble / Orchestra
  • Sinfonia N. 10 (1997-2000) for large orchestra. WP (1st movement; under the title A Tempest. Rounds for Orchestra ) March 30, 2000 Birmingham ( City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra , conductor: Simon Rattle ). WP (complete) August 17, 2002 Lucerne (City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, conductor: Simon Rattle)
1.  A storm - 2.  A hymn - 3.  A dance - 4.  A dream

Concert works

with solo keyboard instrument

piano

  • Concertino (1947) for piano and wind orchestra with percussion. Premiere October 5, 1947 Baden-Baden (Carl Seemann [piano]; Südwestfunk-Orchester, conductor: Werner Egk )
  • 1. Concerto for piano and orchestra (1950). Premiere September 14, 1952 Düsseldorf (Noel Mewton-Wood [piano]; municipal orchestra, conductor: Hans Werner Henze)
1.  Entrée - 2.  Pas de deux - 3.  Coda
  • Concerto per il Marigny for piano, clarinet, bass clarinet, horn, trumpet, trombone, viola and violoncello (1956; incorporated into the Requiem [1990–1992]). Premiere 1956 (?) Paris (Théâtre Marigny; Yvonne Loriod [piano]; Ensemble du Domaine Musical , conductor: Rudolf Albert)
  • Jeux de Tritons (1956/57; extended 1967; Parergon for the ballet Undine [1956/57]). Divertissement for piano and orchestra. Premiere March 28, 1960 Zurich (Alexander Kaul [piano]; Zurich Radio Orchestra, conductor: Jean-Marie Auberson ). WP (extended version): April 1, 1967 Berlin ( Christoph Eschenbach [piano]; Berliner Philharmoniker , conductor: Hans Zender )
  • 2. Concerto for piano and orchestra (in one movement; 1967). Premiere September 29, 1968 Bielefeld (Christoph Eschenbach [piano]; Philharmonic Orchestra Bielefeld, conductor: Bernhard Conz)
  • Tristan (1973; revised 1991). Preludes for piano, tapes and orchestra. Premiere October 20, 1974 London ( Homero Francesch [piano]; London Symphony Orchestra , conductor: Colin Davis )
1.  Prologue - 2.  Lamento - 3.  Prelude and Variations - 4.  Tristan's Madness - 5. Adagio, Burla I, Burla II, Ricercare I, Burla III, Ricercare II - 6th  epilogue
  • Preludes to Tristan (2003): see under Chamber Music - Solos for Keyboard Instrument

with a solo string instrument

violin

  • Concerto for violin and ensemble (1943; lost)
  • 1. Concerto for violin and orchestra (1947). Premiere December 12, 1948 Baden-Baden (Heinz Stanske [violin]; Südwestfunk-Orchester , conductor: Ernest Bour )
1.  Allegro molto - 2.  Vivacissimo - 3.  Andante con moto - 4.  Allegro molto vivace
  • 2nd Violin Concerto (1971): see under Vocal Works for Solo Part (s) and Ensemble / Orchestra
  • Il Vitalino raddoppiato (1977; based on motifs by Tomaso Antonio Vitali ). Ciacona per violino concertante ed orchestra da camera (Chaconne for violin and chamber orchestra). Premiere August 2, 1978 Salzburg ( Festival ; Gidon Kremer [violin]; ORF Symphony Orchestra, conductor: Leif Segerstam )
    • The doubled Vitalin (1978/2003) for piano and violin: see under Chamber Music - Duos for String and Keyboard Instrument
  • 3rd Violin Concerto (1996; revised 2002). Three portraits from the novel Doctor Faustus by Thomas Mann . Premiere September 12, 1997 Berlin ( Konzerthaus , Great Hall; Michael Erxleben [violin]; Berlin Symphony Orchestra , conductor: Michael Schønwandt (* 1953))
1.  Esmeralda - 2.  Echo - 3.  Rudi S.

viola

  • Compases para preguntas ensimismadas ( measures of time for inward-looking questions ; 1969/70). Music for viola and 22 players. Premiere February 11, 1971 Basel (Hirofumi Fukai; Basel Chamber Orchestra , conductor: Paul Sacher )

violoncello

  • Ode to the West Wind (1953) for violoncello and orchestra (based on the poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley ). Premiere April 30, 1954 Bielefeld ( Ludwig Hoelscher [cello]; Bielefeld City Orchestra, conductor: Bernhard Conz)
1.  Calmo - 2.  Vivo - 3.  Tranquillo - 4.  Al tempo di una marcia solenne, ma non lento - 5.  Grave
  • Music for violoncello and ensemble / orchestra (1977–1992):
    • Concert piece (1977) for violoncello and small ensemble (1977; revised 1985)
    • Seven love songs (1984/85) for violoncello and orchestra. Premiere December 12, 1986 Cologne (Westdeutscher Rundfunk; Heinrich Schiff [cello]; WDR symphony orchestra, conductor: David Shallon [1950–2000])
      • Revised version (1992): 6  English love songs ( Canzoni d'Amore Inglese ; without the original No. 5, which has been incorporated into Introduction, Theme and Variations [1992]):
      1.  Keep calm - 2.  § = 72 - 3.  Moved, violent, stormy - 4.  Serious, solemn - 5.  Tango - 6.  Sonnet
    • Introduction, theme and variations (1992) for violoncello, harp and string orchestra (originated from the concert piece [1977] for violoncello and small ensemble and the original no. 5 of the love songs for cello and orchestra). Premiere August 25, 1994 Salzburg ( Festival ; Christoph Richter [cello]; Camerata Academica Salzburg , conductor: Sándor Végh )

double bass

1.  Moderato cantabile - 2.  Vivace - 3.  Ciaccona

with solo wind instrument

oboe

  • Oboe Concerto (1945; lost)

clarinet

  • Le Miracle de la Rose. Imaginäres Theater II (1981) for clarinet and 13 players. Premiere May 26, 1982 London (Anthony Pay [clarinet]; London Sinfonietta, conductor: Hans Werner Henze)
1.  Entrée - 2.  Plainte - 3.  Rigaudon - 4.  Proménade - 5.  Loure - 6.  Chansons provencales

with a plucked solo instrument

  • Ode to an Aeolian harp (1985/86). Music for concert guitar and 15 solo instruments (based on poems by Eduard Mörike ). Premiere August 27, 1986 Lucerne ( David Tanenbaum [guitar]; Ensemble Modern , conductor: Bernhard Klee (* 1936))
1.  To an Aeolian harp - 2.  Question and answer - 3.  To Philomene - 4.  To Hermann

with 2 solo instruments

  • Chamber concert (1946) for piano, flute and strings. Premiere September 27, 1946 Darmstadt ( Kurt Redel [flute], Carl Seemann [piano]; Orchestra of the Landestheater Darmstadt, conductor: Fritz Straub)
1.  Lively halves - 2.  Recitative and aria - 3.  Very lively
  • Doppio Concerto (1966) for oboe, harp and strings. Premiere December 2, 1966 Zurich ( Heinz Holliger [oboe], Ursula Holliger [harp]; Collegium Musicum Zurich, conductor: Paul Sacher )
  • Requiem (1990-1992). 9 sacred concerts for piano solo, concert trumpet and large chamber orchestra. WP (5, 8 & 9 [as 3 sacred concerts ]) November 26, 1992 Tokyo (Suntory Hall; Håkan Hardenberger [trumpet], NHK symphony orchestra , conductor: Oliver Knussen ). WP (complete) February 24, 1993 Cologne ( Philharmonie ; Ueli Wiget (* 1957) [piano], Håkan Hardenberger [trumpet]; Ensemble Modern , conductor: Ingo Metzmacher )
1.  Introitus - 2.  Dies irae - 3.  Ave verum corpus - 4.  Lux aeterna - 5.  Rex tremendae - 6.  Agnus dei - 7.  Tuba mirum - 8.  Lacrimosa - 9.  Sanctus
(1st – 4th for piano and orchestra; 5th for trumpet and orchestra; 6th for piano and strings; 7th for piano and orchestra; 8th – 9th for trumpet and orchestra)
  • 3 sacred concerts (1994–1996) for trumpet and organ / trumpet and piano: see under Chamber Music - Duos for Wind and Keyboard Instrument

Other ensemble / orchestral works

1.  Elogio - 2.  Ecloga - 3.  Elegia - 4.  Ditirambo
  • Symphonic Etudes (1956) for large orchestra. Premiere February 14, 1956 Hamburg (Orchestra of the NWDR, conductor: Jean Martinon)
    • New version (1964): Three symphonic studies . Premiere 1964 London (Maida Vale Studios; BBC Symphony Orchestra , conductor: Hans Werner Henze)
1.  Echoes - 2.  Voices - 3.  Calls
1st  Allegro assai - 2nd  § = 60 - 3rd  § = 138
1st  pas de deux - 2nd  pas de tritons - 3rd  pas de matelots - 4th  pas d'action - 5th  pas de deux
  • Undine. Second suite (in one movement; 1958) for orchestra. Premiere March 3, 1958 Mannheim ( National Theater Orchestra , conductor: Herbert Albert )
  • Sonata per archi (for string orchestra; 1957/58). Premiere March 21, 1958 Zurich (Collegium Musicum Zurich, conductor: Paul Sacher )
1.  Allegro - 2.  32 variations
  • Three dithyrambs for chamber orchestra (1958; in memoriam Willy Strecker [1884–1958]). Premiere November 27, 1958 Cologne (WDR Symphony Orchestra, conductor: Hans Rosbaud )
1.  Sonata - 2.  Invenzione - 3.  Introduzione
  • Antifone (1959/60) for 11 solo strings , wind instruments and percussion. Premiere January 20, 1962 Berlin (Berliner Philharmoniker, conductor: Herbert von Karajan )
  • Los Caprichos (1963). Fantasia for orchestra (after Francisco de Goya ). Premiere April 6, 1967 Duisburg (WDR Symphony Orchestra, conductor: Christoph von Dohnányi )
1.  Nadie se conosce (Nobody knows himself) - 2.  Tal para qual (Like and like to join together) - 3.  El sueño de la razón produce monstruos (The sleep of reason gives birth to monsters) - 4.  Quién más rendido? (Who is more devoted?) - 5.  El sí pronuncian y la mano alargan al primero quel llega (She says yes and extends her hand to the first one who comes) - 6.  De qué mal morirá? (What disease will he die of?) - 7.  Aquellos pulvos… (That dust…) - 8.  No hubo remedio (There was no way out) - 9.  Linda maestra! (Beautiful mistress!)
  • Interludes (1964) from the opera The Young Lord for orchestra. Premiere October 12, 1965 Berlin (Berliner Philharmoniker, conductor: Hans Werner Henze)
1.  Allegro - 2.  Con spirito - 3.  Largo - 4.  Vivace
  • Parerga to the opera Die Bassariden (1964/65):
    • Maenad Dance (1965) for large orchestra. Premiere April 23, 1971 Bielefeld (Philharmonic Orchestra of the City of Bielefeld, conductor: Bernhard Conz)
    • Adagio, Fugue and Maenad Dance (2004) for large orchestra. Premiere September 4, 2005 Hamburg (NDR Sinfonieorchester, conductor: conductor: Christoph von Dohnányi)
  • In memoriam: The White Rose (1965). Double fugue for 12 instruments. Premiere March 16, 1965 Bologna (Teatro Comunale; Rassegna della Resistenza Europea; members of the Orchestra Comunale di Bologna, conductor: Bruno Maderna )
  • Fantasia for strings (1966) from the music for the film The Young Törless by Volker Schlöndorff . Premiere April 1, 1967 Berlin (Berliner Philharmoniker, conductor: Hans Zender )
1.  Adagio - 2.  Tempo of a funeral march - 3.  Espressivo - 4.  Allegro - 5.  Air - 6.  Vivace - 7.  Epilog
  • Revised version (1984/85): Small elegies for old instruments. Premiere December 13, 1986 Cologne (Westdeutscher Rundfunk; Taverner Players, conductor: Andrew Parrott )
  • Heliogabalus Imperator (1971/72; revised 1986). Allegoria per musica (for large orchestra). Premiere November 16, 1972 Chicago (Chicago Symphony Orchestra, conductor: Georg Solti ). WP (revised version) June 28, 1989 Rome ( Villa Massimo ; Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma della RAI, conductor: Eberhard Kloke )
  • Katharina Blum (1975). Concert suite for small orchestra (based on the music for the film The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum ). Premiere May 6th 1976 Brighton Festival (Brighton Festival Players, Conductor: Hans Werner Henze)
1.  The poisoned stream - 2.  The lovers - 3.  Lamentation - 4.  Memories - 5.  Great fugue (rush hour) - 6.  Fear - 7.  The poisoned stream
  • Ragtimes & Habaneras (1975). Sinfonia for brass instruments. Premiere September 13, 1975 London ( Royal Albert Hall )
  • Aria de la folia española . Version for chamber orchestra (1977). Premiere September 17, 1977 St. Paul (Minnesota) (St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Conductor: Dennis Russell Davies )
    • Version for orchestra (1977). Premiere April 23, 1979 Bournemouth (Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, conductor: Hans Werner Henze)
    • Arrangement by Roderick Watkins (* 1964) for 4 saxophones, piano four hands and percussion (1999)
  • Barcarola for large orchestra (1979; in memoriam Paul Dessau ). WP April 22, 1980 Zurich ( Tonhalle Orchestra , conductor: Gerd Albrecht )
  • Parerga to the dance drama Orpheus :
    • Apollo trionfante (1979). Music for wind instruments, keyboard instruments, percussion and double bass. Premiere September 1, 1980 Gelsenkirchen (municipal orchestra, conductor: Uwe Mund)
    • Arien des Orpheus (1979) for guitar, harp, harpsichord and strings. Premiere November 16, 1980 Gelsenkirchen (municipal orchestra, conductor: Uwe Mund)
1.  Orpheus' first aria - 2.  Lamentation. Orpheus 'second aria - 3rd  Danza generale - 4th  Orpheus' third aria
  • Version for large strings (1981). Premiere November 25, 1981 Chicago (Chicago Symphony Orchestra, conductor: Hans Werner Henze)
  • Dramatic scenes from Orpheus (1979) for large orchestra:
1st  lament - 2nd  song - 3rd  return of Orpheus with Eurydice; Eurydice's death - 4.  Orpheus' delusion - 5.  Apotheosis
  • Play music from the fairy tale for music Pollicino (1979/80) for amateur orchestras in various instrumentation
  • 2 Deutschlandsberger Mohrentänze (1984/85) for 4 recorders, guitar, drums, string quartet and string orchestra. Premiere October 14, 1984 / October 19, 1985 Deutschlandsberg , Styria (Orchestra of the Municipal Music School, conductor: Hans Werner Henze)
  • Fandango (1985; revised 1992) sopra un basso del Padre Soler . Premiere February 5, 1986 Paris ( Orchester de Paris , conductor: Daniel Barenboim ). WP (revised version): November 30, 1995 Prague ( Czech Philharmonic , conductor: Gerd Albrecht )
  • Cinque piccoli concerti e ritornelli (1987) for orchestra. Premiere January 24, 1988 London (London Sinfonietta, conductor: Simon Rattle )
1.  Per due Corni - 2.  Per la Tromba - 3.  Per il Trombone - 4.  Per l'Heckelphon, il Clarinetto contrabbasso ed il Contrabbasso - 5.  Per il Violino
1.  Andante, molto sostenuto - 2.  Allegretto, leggero - 3.  Adagio
  • Voie lactée ô soeur lumineuse (1994). Evening music for an old friend. Toccata for 19 instrumentalists. Premiere May 7, 1996 Basel (ensemble of the IGNM Basel, conductor: Jürg Henneberger)
  • Nocturne. Eine Serenade (1995; for Klaus Rainer Schöll) for wind instruments, double bass and piano. Premiere September 22, 2001 Koblenz (Music Days; wind soloists of the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen , Matthias Beltinger [double bass], Peter Caelen [piano])
  • Pulcinellas Erzählungen (1996) from the ballet Le disperazioni del Signor Pulcinella for chamber orchestra
  • Parerga to the ballet Le fils de l'air ( The Son of Air ; 1995/96):
1.  Ballad - 2.  Grande Sarabande Bohémienne - 3.  Farewell
1.  La irascible - 2.  La alabanza - 3.  La expectación - 4.  El pavo real - 5.  La soberbia - 6.  Dolor - 7.  El gran paso de la Reina Arábica
  • Fraternity (1999). Air pour l'orchestre. Premiere November 11, 1999 New York ( Avery Fisher Hall ; New York Philharmonic , conductor: Kurt Masur)
  • Parerga to the opera L'Upupa and the triumph of love as a son (2000-2003):
    • L'heure bleue. Sérénade ( The Blue Hour ; 2001) for chamber orchestra (16 players). Premiere September 13, 2001 Frankfurt am Main ( Alte Oper ; Ensemble Modern, conductor: Oliver Knussen )
    • Five Messages for the Queen of Sheba (2004) for large orchestra. Premiere February 3, 2005 Paris ( Orchester National de France , conductor: Kurt Masur)
  • Triplo concerto barocco (2003) for chamber orchestra (based on the novella Concierto Barocco by Alejo Carpentier , the film Montezuma by José Montes-Baquer and the opera Motezuma by Antonio Vivaldi ). Premiere August 9, 2004 Berlin (Konzerthaus; Joven Orquesta Sinfónica del Principado de Asturias, conductor: Arturo Tamayo )
1. [composed tuning of the instruments] - 2.  Allegro vivace - 3.  Tarantella
  • Sebastian im Traum (2004) for large orchestra (based on the poem of the same name by Georg Trakl ). Premiere December 22, 2005 Amsterdam (Concertgebouw Orchestra, conductor: Mariss Jansons )
  • Overture to a theater (2012) for large orchestra (for the 100th anniversary of the Deutsche Oper ). Premiere October 20th, 2012 Berlin (Orchestra of the Deutsche Oper, Conductor: Donald Runnicles )
Scoring: 3 (+ Picc + AFl) .3 (+ EH) .3 (+ BKlar) .3 (+ KFg) - 4.4.3.1 - Pk.Sz (3) - harp - piano - strings

Edits

  • Telemanniana (in one movement; 1967; based on the Paris Quartet in E minor [1736] for flute, violin, violoncello and basso continuo by Georg Philipp Telemann ) for large orchestra. Premiere April 4, 1967 Berlin ( Berliner Philharmoniker ; Conductor: Gerd Albrecht )
  • I sentimenti di Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1982). Trascrizione per flauto, arpa e archi dalla Clavier-Fantasie [1787] con accompagnamente di un violino. Premiere April 14, 1982 Rome (Teatro Olimpico; Mario Ancilotti [flute], Claudia Antonelli [harp]; Accademia Filarmonica Romana, Gruppo strumentale Musica d'Oggi, conductor: Angelo Faja)
  • The Adventures of Don Chisciotte (1990). Suite from the opera of the same name after Giovanni Paisiello and Giovanni Battista Lorenzi . Version for symphonic wind orchestra: Norbert Studnitzky . Premiere October 14, 1990 Deutschlandsberg (Musikverein Stadtkapelle, conductor: Franz Maurer)
1.  Morning ride (Sinfonia) - 2.  The tragic hero - 3.  Fight with the shepherds - 4.  Sancho Pansa's feast - 5.  Dulcinea - 6.  Ritornello - 7.  Fight with the windmill blades
  • Three Mozart organ sonatas (church sonatas in C major KV 336c, E flat major KV 67 and C major KV 328). Arrangement for 14 players (1991). Premiere September 19, 1991 Frankfurt am Main ( Alte Oper , Mozartsaal; Scharoun Ensemble Berlin, conductor: Oliver Knussen)
  • Three orchestral pieces (1995) based on piano music by Karl Amadeus Hartmann (sonata April 27, 1945 ). Premiere July 5, 1996 Munich ( Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra , conductor: Lorin Maazel )
1st  Pietà - 2nd  funeral march - 3rd  reveille

Chamber music

Solos

for keyboard instrument

  • Six Sonatas (1945; lost)
  • Three piano pieces (1946; lost)
  • Piano Sonata (1947; for Wladimir Horbowski ; lost)
  • Sonatina (1947) for piano
  • Six piano pieces (1947)
  • Variations (1948) for piano. Premiere June 17, 1949 Frankfurt am Main ( Hessischer Rundfunk ; Alexander Kaul)
  • Five piano pieces in G major (1950; lost)
  • Piano Sonata (1951; for Brigitte Bermann-Fischer [1905–1991])
  • Sonata per il pianoforte (1959). Premiere September 26, 1959 Berlin (Klaus Billing)
1.  Molto movimentato - 2.  Cantabile, con tenerezza - 3.  Vivace
  • Six Absences pour le Clavecin (for harpsichord ; 1961). Premiere November 7, 1963 Mainz (Funkhaus am Deutschhausplatz; Kurt-Heinz Stolze)
1.  Molto mesto e lento - 2.  Andante cantabile - 3.  Pesante, molto mosso - 4.  Andantino - 5.  Lento - 6.  Allegramente - Agrèment de la Sixième Absence
  • Lucy Escott Variations (1963) for harpsichord (on the aria Come a me sereno from La sonnambula [1831] by Vincenzo Bellini ). Premiere March 21, 1965 Berlin (Klaus Billing)
    • Version for piano by Klaus Billing. Premiere March 21, 1965 Berlin (Klaus Billing)
  • Euridice (1978, revised 1981 and 1992). Framenti per il clavicembalo dal balletto L'Orfeo . Premiere October 2, 1986 New York (Merkin Concert Hall; Judith Norell [harpsichord])
Con calma e grazia - Sarabanda - Gran lamento - Colori splendenti
  • Toccata senza Fuga (1979) from Orpheus for organ . WP May 21, 1979 Stuttgart (Anton Zapf)
  • Six pieces for young pianists (1980; Parergon zum Märchen für Musik Pollicino [1979]). Premiere October 13, 1982 Stuttgart (András Hamary (* 1950))
1.  Ballad - 2.  Allegro con grazia - 3.  The man eater . Allegro barbaro - 4th  man-eater's dream. Moderato cantabile - 5th  Allegro mostruoso - 6th  Margaret Waltz
  • Cherubino (1980/81). 3 miniatures for piano. Premiere 23 August 1981 Berlin ( Deutsche Oper ; Homero Francesch )
  • Une petite phrase (1984) from the film Un amour de Swann . Arrangement for piano
  • La mano sinistra. Piece for Leon (1987; for Leon Fleisher ; on motifs from The betrayed sea ) for piano (left hand)
  • Piece for Peter (1988; for Peter Serkin ) for piano
  • Piano piece (1989)
  • Das Haus Ibach (1991) for piano
  • Pulcinella disperato. Fantasia (1991/92) for piano. Scenes from the ballet comedy Le disperazioni di Pulcinella . Premiere May 8, 1994 Munich (4th  Munich Biennale ; Moritz Eggert )
  • For Reinhold (1994) for piano
  • Toccata mistica (1994) for piano. Premiere November 13, 1994 Cologne ( Philharmonie ; Homero Francesch )
  • Olly on the Shore (2001; for Oliver Knussen ) for piano
  • Preludes to Tristan (2003) for piano. WP August 6, 2003 Salzburg ( Mozarteum ; Siegfried Mauser )
  • Scorribanda Pianistica (2003). Version for piano by Martin Zehn

for string instrument

1.  Adagio rubato - 2.  Un poco allegretto - 3.  Pastorale - 4.  Andante con moto, rubato - 5.  Vivace - 6.  Tango - 7.  Allegro marziale - 8.  Allegretto - 9.  Minuet
1.  Tirsi - 2.  Mopso - 3.  Aristeo
  • S. Biagio 9 Agosto ore 07/12 (1977). Ricordo per un contrabbasso solo
  • Lander (1977) for violin
  • Étude philharmonique (1979) for violin
  • Epitaph for violoncello (1979; on the death of Paul Dessau )
  • Serenade for violin (1986). Premiere June 1, 1986 Bad Godesberg (Adelina Oprean)
  • For Manfred (1989) for violin solo (at the memorial service of Manfred Gräter [1928–1989])
  • To Brenton (1993). Song for viola (for Brenton Langbein)

for wind instrument

  • Sonatina (1974) for trumpet
1.  Toccata - 2.  Canzona - 3.  Segnali
  • Version for trombone by Martin Harvey

for plucked instrument

1.  Tranquillamente - 2.  Allegro rubato - 3.  Leggero e scorrevole
  • Memorias de El Cimarrón (1970) for guitar. Free adaptation by Leo Brouwer
  • Royal Winter Music (I / II) for guitar:
    • First sonata on characters from Shakespeare (1975). Premiere September 20, 1976 Berlin (Festival Weeks; Julian Bream)
Gloucester - Romeo and Juliet - Ariel - Ophelia - Touchstone, Audrey and William - Oberon
Sir Andrew Aguecheek - Bottom's Dream - Mad Lady Macbeth
  • Drei Märchenbilder (1980) for guitar (Parergon zum Märchen für Musik Pollicino [1979]). Premiere August 2nd, 1980 Montepulciano (Reinbert Evers)
    • Arrangement for 2 guitars (1997) by Jürgen Ruck: see duos for plucked instruments
  • Minette (1992). Five melodies for zither (Parergon to the opera The English Cat [1980–1983; revised 1990])
1.  Con comodo e con grazia - 2.  Aria - 3.  Andante cantabile - 4.  Allegretto melancolico - 5.  Chanson d'Adieu, Moderato assai, Lamento

for percussion instrument (s)

1.  Misteriously, tempo of a funeral march - 2.  Very fast - 3.  Very slowly, extremly quiet, whispering - 4.  Allegretto (with grace, no rush) - 5.  Andante cantabile

Duos

for string and keyboard instrument

  • Sonata (1946) for violin and piano
1.  Prelude - 2.  Nocturne - 3.  Intermezzo - 4.  Finale
  • Sonata per Viola e Pianoforte (in one movement; 1979). WP April 20, 1980 Witten ( Witten Days for New Chamber Music ; Garth Knox [viola], Jan Latham-Koenig [piano])
  • Sonatina (1979) for violin and piano (Parergon zum Märchen für Musik Pollicino [1979]). Premiere December 2, 1980 London (Queen Elizabeth Hall; Jenny Abel [violin], Roberto Szidon [piano])
1.  Allegretto - 2.  Moderato assai - 3.  Passacaglia
  • Five Night Pieces (1990) for violin and piano. Premiere May 16, 1990 London ( Royal Academy of Music ; Peter Sheppard [violin], Aaron Shorr [piano])
1.  Elegy - 2.  Capriccio - 3.  First shepherd's song - 4.  Second shepherd's song - 5.  Ode
  • The doubled Vitalin (1978/2003). Variations for piano and violin (on motifs by Tomaso Antonio Vitali ). Premiere August 16, 2003 Salzburg ( Mozarteum ; Benjamin Schmid [violin], Ariane Haering [piano])
  • English ballads and sonnets (2003) for piano and violoncello. WP August 16, 2003 Salzburg (Mozarteum; Lucas Fels [cello], Siegfried Mauser [piano])
1.  Quiet, restrained - 2.  Quarter = 72 - 3.  Moving, violent, stormy - 4.  Serious, solemn - 5.  Tango - 6.  Sonnet

for wind and keyboard instruments

  • Sonatina (1947) for flute and piano. Premiere 1947 Darmstadt-Kranichstein ( Kurt Redel [flute], Carl Seemann [piano])
1.  Moderato - 2.  Allegro molto vivace - 3.  Andantino - 4.  Presto
  • 3 sacred concerts (1994/96) for trumpet and organ / trumpet and piano. Facilities: Moritz Eggert
1.  Rex tremendae - 2.  Lacrimosa - 3.  Sanctus

for plucked and keyboard instruments

  • A Little House Music (1986) for guitar and fortepiano

for keyboard instruments

  • Divertimenti (1964). Interludes from the opera The Young Lord for 2 pianos. Premiere November 30, 1964 New York (Joseph Rollino and Paul Sheftel)
1.  Allegro - 2.  Con spirito - 3.  Largo - 4.  Vivace
  • Nocturnal Serenade ( Serenata notturna ; Parergon to the opera Die Englische Katzen [1980–1983; revised 1990]). Arrangement for 2 pianos by Martin Zehn (1993)
  • Serenata notturna (1996) for 2 pianos

for string instruments

  • Allegra e Boris (1987). Wedding music for violin and viola

for plucked instruments

  • Drei Märchenbilder (1980; Parergon zum Märchen für Musik Pollicino [1979]). Arrangement for 2 guitars (1997) by Jürgen Ruck
  • Minette (1998). Canti e rimpianti amorosi for 2 guitars (Parergon to the opera The English Cat [1980–1983; revised 1990])
1.  Canzona felina e campagnola - 2. Aria lunare -  3.  Il cuore Spezzato - 4.  Pianto delle due sorelle - 5.  Minuetto di Minette - 6.  Chanson d'Adieu - 7.  La morte amorosa dell'eroina

Trios

Piano trios

  • Chamber sonata (1948; revised 1963) for piano trio . Premiere March 16, 1950 Cologne ( Wolfram Gehring [piano], Rolf Müller [violin], Heinrich Plümacher [violoncello])
1.  Allegro assai - 2.  Dolce, con tenerezza - 3.  Lento

String trio

  • Trio in three movements (1998) for violin, viola and violoncello. WP May 12, 1999 Schwetzingen (Festival; German String Trio)
1.  Allegrettino - 2.  Adagio - 3.  Lander

Trios for a mixed cast

  • Trio ( Divertimento ?) (1945; lost) for oboe, viola and violoncello
  • Carillon, Récitatif, Masque (1974). Trio for mandolin, guitar and harp. Premiere February 2nd, 1977 London (Hugo d'Alton [mandolin], Roland Harker [guitar], Una O'Donovan [harp])
  • Self-Discussions and Dialogues (1984/85). Trio for viola, guitar and small organ (or other keyboard instrument; each part can also be played as a solo, duo combinations [viola / guitar, viola / organ, guitar / organ] are also possible). Premiere September 29, 1985 Brühl (gala concert for the 700th anniversary of the Diocese of Brühl; Olivier Kauffmann [viola], Carry Greisch [guitar], Pierre Nimax [organ])
  • Leçons de danse (1995/96) for 2 pianos (or piano and harp) and percussion (Parergon to the ballet Le fils de l'air [ The son of the air ; 1995/96]). Premiere May 25, 1997 Schwetzingen ( Festival )
Tango - Tempo di Minuetto - Foxtrot - Final

Quartets

String quartets

  • 1st string quartet (1947). Premiere 1947 Heidelberg (Friends Quartet)
1.  Allegro molto - 2.  Andantino - 3.  Lento, ma non troppo - 4.  Presto
  • 2nd string quartet (1952). Premiere December 16, 1952 Baden-Baden ( Südwestfunk ; Parrenin Quartet)
1st  MM = 70 - 2nd  MM = 69 - 3rd  MM = 152
  • 3rd string quartet (in one movement; 1975/76). Premiere September 12, 1976 Berlin ( Festival Weeks ; Concord Quartet)
  • 4th string quartet (1976). Premiere May 25, 1977 Schwetzingen ( Festival ; Concord Quartet)
Molto agitato - Adagio. William Byrd Pavana - Allegretto moderato - Rondo improvvisato
  • 5th String Quartet (1976). Premiere May 25, 1977 Schwetzingen (Festival; Concord Quartet)
1.  MM = 72 - 2.  Breathless, wild - 3.  MM = heartbeat - 4.  Quiet, remote - 5.  Echoes, memories, very far away - 6.  Morning song

Quartets for mixed instrumentation

  • Small quartet (1945) for oboe, violin, viola and violoncello
  • A small potpourri (2000) from Boulevard Solitude for flute, vibraphone, harp and piano. Premiere October 22, 2000 Hanover ( Expo 2000 , German Pavilion; Ensemble TrioLog: Burkhard Jäckle [flute], Stefan Blum [vibraphone], Silvia Christine Fuchs [harp], Jan Philip Schulze [piano])
1.  Berceuse, Gavotte and Gallop - 2.  Manon Lescaut writes a letter - 3.  Perpetuum mobile

Quintets

Piano quintet

  • Quintetto (1990/91) for piano and string quartet. Premiere March 25, 1993 Berkeley (Peter Serkin [piano], Guarneri String Quartet )
1.  Con ferocia - 2.  Adagio - 3.  Litania

Woodwind quintets

  • Wind quintet (1952; for flute, oboe, clarinet, horn and bassoon). Premiere February 15, 1953 Radio Bremen (Brass Association of the Bremen Philharmonic)
1.  Introduction - 2.  Theme - 3.  Variation - 4.  Very calm - 5.  Quick, cheerful - 6.  Gallop
  • L'autunno (1977). Music for 5 wind instrumentalists. WP February 28, 1979 London ( Wigmore Hall ); Koenig Ensemble, conductor: Jan Latham-Koenig (* 1953)
Instrumentation: flute (also piccolo and alto flute), oboe (also oboe d'amore ), clarinet (also E flat clarinet and bass clarinet ), horn (ad lib. Also Wagner tuba ), bassoon (also contrabassoon )
1.  Moderato - 2.  Allegretto - 3.  Allegramente - Malincolia - 4.  Vivace - 5.  Quia respexit humilitatem ancillae suae

Brass quintets

  • Fragments from a show (1971; from The lengthy way to Natascha Ungeheuer's apartment ). Sentences for tin quintet. Premiere October 1971 ( Philip Jones Brass Ensemble American Tour)
  • Variation (1981) for tin quintet

Quintets for a mixed cast

  • Amicizia! (1976). Quintet for clarinet, trombone, violoncello, percussion and piano. Premiere August 6, 1976 Montepulciano (1 °  Cantiere Internazionale d'Arte ; Instrumental Ensemble Hinz and Art)
  • Neue Volkslieder und Hirtengesänge (1996; freely based on the music theater piece Oedipus the Tyrann [1983]) for bassoon, guitar and string trio . WP December 15, 1997 Berlin ( Berlin Philharmonic , Chamber Music Hall ; Scharoun Ensemble)
1st  pastoral - 2nd  morning song - 3rd  ballad - 4th  dance - 5th  recitative - 6th  evening song - 7th  finale

Sextets

for string instruments

  • Young Törless (1966). Fantasia for string sextet (3 violins, 2 violas and violoncello; based on the music for the film of the same name by Volker Schlöndorff ). WP June 22, 1968 Minterne, Dorchester (Langbein-Ensemble)
1.  Adagio - 2.  Allegro marcato - 3.  Air - 4.  Vivace - 5.  Epilogo
  • Extended version for string orchestra: see under Other ensemble / orchestral works

for percussion instruments

for mixed cast

  • Sonata for six players (1983; based on the score for L'amour à mort by Alain Resnais ). Premiere September 26, 1984 London (The Fires of London, Conductor: John Carewe)

Septet

  • Canzona (1982) for 7 instruments. Premiere June 6, 1982 Stuttgart (State Theater; Conductor: Dennis Russel Davies)

Octets

  • Concerto per il Marigny (1956) for piano and 7 instruments: see under Concertante works with solo keyboard instrument
  • Quattro Fantasie (1963; octet movements from chamber music 1958 and Adagio 1963 ) for clarinet, bassoon, horn, 2 violins, viola, cello and double bass
1.  Prefazione - 2.  Sonata - 3.  Cadenza - 4.  Adagio (Epilogo)
  • Sonata per otto ottoni (for 8 brass instruments; 1983). Premiere September 17, 1983 Berlin (Festival Weeks; brass ensemble of the Berlin Philharmonic)
1.  Largo - 2.  Allegraments - 3.  Rondino I - 4.  Grave - 5.  Rondino II

Vocal works

For solo voice and one instrument

Singing voice and piano

  • Whispers from Heavenly Death (1948; revised 1999). Cantata for high voice (soprano or tenor) and piano. Text: Walt Whitman , German by Georg Goyert . Premiere June 14, 1950 Stuttgart (Days of Contemporary Music; Sybille Ursula Fuchs [soprano]; Frank Zubal [piano])
1.  Do you dare now, oh soul - 2.  No map there, no guide - 3.  I don't know it, oh soul - 4.  Only when the ties break - 5.  Then we break up
  • Chanson Pflastersteine (1950) for soprano and piano. Text:?
  • Ariosi (1963). Version for soprano and piano 4 hands. Texts: Torquato Tasso
1.  Qual rugiada - 2.  Compianto - 3.  Maraviglioso fior del vostro mare - 4.  Estro - 5.  Deh, vieni, morte soave
  • Version for soprano, violin and orchestra: see under Vocal works for solo voices and ensemble / orchestra
1.  In memoriam LKA (1950–1952) (“At peace under this mandarin, sleep”) - 2.  Rimbaud (“The nights, the railway arches, the bad sky”) - 3.  Lay your sleeping head, my love
  • Heimlich zur Nacht (1994) for soprano and piano. Text: Else Lasker-Schüler . Premiere May 28, 1994 Berlin-Lankwitz ( Siemensvilla ; Gundula Hintz [soprano], Axel Bauni [piano]; concert for the 60th birthday of the director of the Berliner Festspiele , Ulrich Eckhardt )
  • Nocturnal Serenade (from The English Cat ). Arrangement for soprano and piano (1996) by Martin Zehn
  • Six songs from Arabic (1997/98) for tenor and piano. Texts: Hans Werner Henze. Premiere 23 November Cologne (Philharmonie; Ian Bostridge [tenor], Julius Drake [piano])
1.  Selim and the wind - 2.  The praying mantis - 3.  A sunrise - 4.  Caesarion - 5.  Fatuma's lament - 6.  Paradise

Singing voice and guitar

  • Three fragments after Hölderlin (1958) for tenor and guitar
1.  In lovely blue - 2.  Would I like to be a comet? - 3.  When someone looks in the mirror
  • Chilelied ("This Chilean Summer Was Sweet"; 1974) for voice and guitar. Text: Rudi Bergmann (* 1950). Premiere May 31, 1974 Essen ( Grugahalle ; memorial concert for Víctor Jara , at the same time a solidarity event for the resistance in Chile; Dieter Süverkrüp [voice and guitar])

Singing voice and variable instrument

  • Holy Night (1993). A Christmas carol for medium voice and recorder (or flute, or oboe, or violin). Text: Hans-Ulrich Treichel

Voice (from tape) and drums

  • Prison Song (1971) for a drummer and tape. Text: Ho Chi Minh . Taken slightly changed in Voices (1973): see under Vocal works for solo part (s) and ensemble / orchestra

For solo voices and 2–5 instruments

1.  The world - 2.  The Cimarrón - 3.  Slavery - 4.  The escape - 5.  The forest - 6.  The ghosts - 7.  The false freedom - 8.  The women - 9.  The machines - 10.  The pastors - 11.  The uprising - 12.  The battle of Mal Tiempo - 13.  The bad victory - 14.  The kindness - 15.  The knife
  • Memorias de "El Cimarrón" (1970) for guitar. Arrangement by Leo Brouwer: see under Chamber Music - Solos for Plucked Instrument
1.  Raise your voice - 2.  Children's mouth
  • Von Krebs zu Krebs (1981) for soprano, flute and piano. Text:?

For solo voices and ensemble / orchestra

  • The charge (1948). Concert aria for baritone, trumpet, trombone and string orchestra. Text: Franz Werfel
  • Whispers from Heavenly Death (1948; revised 1999). Cantata for high voice (soprano or tenor) and 8 instrumentalists. Text: Walt Whitman , German by Georg Goyert . Premiere 1950 Frankfurt am Main (Hessischer Rundfunk; orchestra members of the Hessischer Rundfunk, conductor: Winfried Zillig )
1.  Do you dare now, oh soul - 2.  No map there, no guide - 3.  I don't know it, oh soul - 4.  Only when the ties break - 5.  Then we break up
  • Lullaby of the Mother of God (1948) for a boy's voice or unanimous boy's choir and 9 solo instruments. Text: Lope de Vega , German by Artur Altschul. Premiere June 27, 1954 Duisburg (Niederrheinisches Musikfest; Agnes Giebel [soprano]; conductor: Georg Ludwig Jochum )
  • Apollo et Hyazinthus (1948/49). Improvisations for harpsichord, alto voice and 8 solo instruments. Text: Georg Trakl , In the Park
  • Five Neapolitan songs ( Cinque canzoni napoletane ; Canzoni "e copp" 'o tammurro [songs for the drum] ; 1956) for baritone and chamber orchestra. Texts: anonymous (17th century). Premiere May 26, 1956 Frankfurt am Main (Hessischer Rundfunk; Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau , Symphony Orchestra of the Hessischer Rundfunk, conductor: Otto Matzerath )
  • Night pieces and arias (1957) for soprano and large orchestra. Texts: Ingeborg Bachmann. Premiere October 20, 1957 Donaueschingen ( Musiktage ; Gloria Davy [soprano]; Südwestfunk-Orchester , conductor: Hans Rosbaud )
1.  Night Piece I - 2.  Aria I: Where we turn in the thunderstorm of roses - 3.  Night Piece II - 4.  Aria II: With sleep-drunk birds - 5.  Night Piece III
  • Chamber music 1958 for tenor, guitar and 8 solo instruments. Text: Friedrich Hölderlin , hymn in lovely blue . Premiere November 26, 1958 Hamburg (Norddeutscher Rundfunk; Peter Pears [tenor], Julian Bream [guitar]; orchestra members of the Norddeutscher Rundfunk, conductor: Hans Werner Henze)
1.  Prefazione - 2.  In lovely blue - 3.  Tento I: You beautiful brook - 4.  Inside comes from different things - 5.  Tento II: The eye often finds it - 6.  Is there a measure on earth - 7.  Sonata - 8.  Do I want to be a comet? - 9.  Cadenza - 10.  When someone looks in the mirror - 11.  Tento III: Son of Laios - 12.  Like brooks the end of something pulls me away - 13.  Adagio (Epilogo)
  • Three fragments after Hölderlin (1958) for tenor and guitar: see under Vocal Works for Solo Voice and 1 Instrument
1.  In lovely blue - 2.  Would I like to be a comet? - 3.  When someone looks in the mirror
  • Three tentos for guitar (1963): see under Chamber Music - Solos for Plucked Instrument
  • Quattro Fantasie (1963): see under Chamber Music - Octets
  • Three arias (1960; revised 1993) from the opera Elegy for young lovers for baritone and small orchestra. Texts: Wystan Hugh Auden and Chester Kallman . German version: Ludwig Landgraf, Werner Schachteli and Hans Werner Henze
1.  Of all the poets of our time - 2.  O Titania - 3.  Bah, this pack
1.  Qual rugiada - 2.  Compianto - 3.  Maraviglioso fior del vostro mare - 4.  Estro - 5.  Deh, vieni, morte soave
  • Version for soprano and piano 4 hands: see under Vocal Works for Solo Voice and 1 Instrument
  • Editing of No. 2:
    • for string sextet (1966, on the film Un amour de Swann ): see under film music and chamber music - sextets
    • for string orchestra (1966): see under Other ensemble / orchestral works
    • for piano (1984): see under Chamber Music - Solos for Keyboard Instrument
  • A Country Doctor (1964). Monodrama for baritone and small orchestra. Text: Franz Kafka . Premiere October 13, 1965 Berlin ( Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau ; Berliner Philharmoniker , conductor: Hans Werner Henze)
  • Experiment about pigs (1968) for spoken word (baritone) and orchestra. Text: Gaston Salvatore . Premiere February 14, 1969 London (Roy Hart [baritone]; English Chamber Orchestra , conductor: Hans Werner Henze)
  • 2nd violin concerto (in one movement; 1971; revised 1991) for solo violinist, tape, bass baritone and 33 instrumentalists. Text: Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Hommage à Gödel . Premiere November 2, 1972 Basel (Brenton Langbein [violin], Kurt Widmer [bass baritone]; Basel Chamber Orchestra, conductor: Paul Sacher )
  • Voices (1973). A collection of songs for mezzo-soprano, tenor and instrumental groups (15 players). Premiere January 4, 1974 London (Queen Elizabeth Hall; Rose Taylor [mezzo-soprano], Paul Sperry [tenor]; London Sinfonietta, conductor: Hans Werner Henze)
1.  Los poetas cubanos ya no suenan . Text: Heberto Padilla (1932–2000) - 2nd  Prison Song . Text: Ho Chi Minh - 3.  None or all . Text: Bertolt Brecht - 4.  The Electric Cop . Text: Victor Hernandez Cruz (* 1949) - 5.  The Distant Drum . Text: Calvin C. Hernton (1933–2001) - 6.  42 school children . Text: Erich Fried - 7.  Caino . Text: Gino De Santis - 8.  Il Pasi . Text: Mario Tobino (1910–1991) - 9th  homecoming . Text: Heinrich Heine - 10th  Grecia 1970 . Text: Giuseppe Ungaretti - 11.  Legend of the origin of the book Taoteking on Laotse's journey into emigration . Text: Bertolt Brecht - 12.  Thoughts of a revue girl during the act of undressing . Text: Bertolt Brecht - 13.  The real knife . Text: Hans Magnus Enzensberger - 14.  Right and fair . Text: Erich Fried - 15.  Patria . Text: Miguel Barnet - 16th  Screams (Interlude). Text: Walton Smith - 17.  The Worker . Text: Richard W. Thomas - 18.  Para aconsejar a una dama . Text: Heberto Padilla - 19th  Roses and Revolutions . Text: Dudley Randall (1914–2000) - 20th  conjecture about Hessen . Text: FC Delius - 21st  end . Text: Michaelis Katsaros - 22.  The Flower Festival . Text: Hans Magnus Enzensberger
1.  Con una cuchara - 2.  Tenía la noche - 3.  Es por el silencio sapientismo - 4.  A la izquierda
  • Drei Lieder über den Schnee (1989) for soprano, baritone and 8 instruments. Texts: Hans-Ulrich Treichel. Premiere September 8, 1989 Frankfurt am Main ( Alte Oper ; Maria Husmann [soprano], Kurt Widmer [baritone]; Scharoun Ensemble, conductor: Gernot Schulz )
1.  Snow that I want to praise - 2.  A snow fell - 3.  When the earth was deserted
  • Paraphrases on Dostoevsky . Put into words for Prince Myshkin by Ingeborg Bachmann for speaking voice and 11 instruments (1990). Libretto: Ingeborg Bachmann (1953). Premiere January 12, 1991 London (Barbican Hall; Jonathan Moore [speaker], London Sinfonietta, conductor: Ingo Metzmacher)
1.  Intrada - 2.  Danse - 3.  Petits jeux - 4.  Pas de quatre - 5.  Grand pas - 6.  Air 1 - 7.  Scène - 8.  Interlude - 9.  Pas de deux - 10.  Air 2 - 11.  Scène - 12th  ballad. Ritornello - 13th  ballet blanc - 14th  scene - 15th  interlude - 16th  variations - 17th  pantomime - 18th  finale. Bolero - 19th  apotheosis
1.  No look, no shadow - 2.  What a beautiful voice
  • Songs and Dances (1992/93) from the operetta La Cubana for mezzo-soprano and chamber ensemble. Texts: Hans Magnus Enzensberger. Premiere September 12, 1993 Zurich (Kleiner Tonhallesaal; Maria Husmann [soprano], Collegium Novum Zurich)
1.  Overture - 2.  Tivoli couplet - 3.  Canzona I - 4.  Tango - 5.  Polonaise - 6.  Ragtime - 7.  Canzona II - 8.  Illusion
  • Aristaeus (1997-2003). Dramma in musica per voce recitante (baritono) e orchestra (for speaking voice [or baritone] and orchestra). Text: Hans Werner Henze. Premiere February 1, 2004 Berlin (Konzerthaus; Martin Wuttke [speaker]; Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, conductor: Marek Janowski)

For solo voices / a cappella choir

  • Mad People's Madrigal from We Come to the River (1974–1976) for 12-part mixed choir. Text: Edward Bond
  • Orpheus behind the wire ( Orpheus behind the barbed wire ; 1981–1983) for 4- to 12-part mixed choir. Texts: Edward Bond, German version: Hans Werner Henze
1.  How was hell? (SSSAAATTTBBB) - 2.  The meaning lies here (SSAA) - 3.  You who survived the time of the murderers ( SATBB ) - 4.  Now everything is different (TTTBBB) - 5.  Orpheus (SSAATTBB)
  • An Sascha (1991) for soprano and alto. Text:?
  • Hirtenlieder from the opera Venus and Adonis (1993–1995) for 6 voices (S.Mez.ATBar.B) solo or chorus. Texts: Hans-Ulrich Treichel
1.  The morning rises - 2.  Adonis is impetuous - 3.  The wind, it speaks to the leaves - 4.  The rivers stand still

For choir and ensemble / orchestra

  • Five madrigals (1947) for small mixed choir ( SATB ) and 11 solo instruments. Texts: François Villon (from Le Testament , Das große Testament [1461/62]), German by Paul Zech . Premiere April 25, 1950 Frankfurt am Main (Frankfurter Singakademie; instrumentalists of the Kölner Rundfunk-Sinfonie-Orchester, conductor: Ljubomir Romansky)
1.  In the forest, there rests - 2.  And there is no field - 3.  As Emperor Alexander - 4.  Who must die - 5.  Your image in your face
  • Choir of Captive Trojans (1948; revised 1964). Symphonic movement for mixed choir and large orchestra. Text: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (from Faust II , 3rd act). Premiere February 6, 1949 Bielefeld (choir of the Bielefeld Musikverein, Bielefeld City Orchestra, conductor: Hans Hoffmann)
  • Lullaby of the Mother of God (1948) for a boy’s voice or unanimous boy’s choir and 9 solo instruments: see under Vocal Works for Solo Voice (s) and Ensemble / Orchestra
  • Songs from an Island (1964). Choral fantasies for chamber choir, trombone, 2 cellos, double bass, portative, percussion and timpani. Texts: Ingeborg Bachmann. Premiere January 23, 1967 Selb (100th Rosenthal celebration evening; RIAS chamber choir, members of the Berliner Philharmoniker, conductor: Hans Werner Henze)
1.  Fruits of the shadow fall from the walls - 2.  When you rise - 3.  The festival must come one day - 4.  When someone leaves - 5.  There is fire under the earth
1. Pastorale ("Quid, quae te pura solum sub nocte canentem") - 2. Adagio ("Alpinas a!") - 3. Silenus ("... simul incipit ipse")
1.  The escape - 2.  Among the dead - 3.  Report of the persecutors - 4.  The plane tree - 5.  The fall - 6.  The night in the cathedral - 7.  The rescue
Orchestra: 3 (+ 2Picc + AFl) .EH.1 [+ BKlar] .0 - 1.2.0.Wagner tuba - perc. [2] - harp - piano - celesta - strings: 0.0.0.1.1

For solo voices, choir and ensemble / orchestra

  • Scenes and arias (1956) from the opera König Hirsch for soprano, tenor, mixed choir, boys' choir (ad lib.) And large orchestra. Text: Heinz von Cramer
    • Vocal symphony (1995; in 5 movements) from the opera König Hirsch for singer ensemble and large orchestra. Text: Heinz von Cramer
  • Uprising (1960/61; together with Paul Dessau ). Text: Jens Gerlach. Contribution to the joint work Jüdische Chronik (with Boris Blacher , Rudolf Wagner-Régeny , Karl Amadeus Hartmann ) for alto, baritone, chamber choir, 2 speakers and small orchestra. Premiere January 14, 1966 Cologne ( WDR Sinfonieorchester , conductor: Christoph von Dohnányi )
  • Novae de infinito laudes (1962). Cantata for 4 solos (SATB), mixed choir (SATB) and orchestra. Texts: Giordano Bruno . Premiere April 24, 1963 Venice ( Biennale di Venezia )
1.  Corpi Celesti (The Celestial Bodies) - 2.  I Quattro Elementi (The Four Elements) - 3.  La Continua Mutazione (The Continuous Change) - 4.  Il Piacere E'Nel Movimento (Joy is in Movement) - 5.  Il Sorgere del Sole (The Sunrise) - 6.  Il Sommo Bene (The Supreme Good)
  • Cantata della fiaba estrema (1963) for soprano, chamber choir (SATB) and 13 instruments. Text: Elsa Morante . Premiere February 26, 1965 Zurich ( Ingeborg Hallstein [soprano]; Collegium Musicum Zurich, Singkreis Zurich, conductor: Paul Sacher )

Edits

1.  The angel - 2.  Stand still - 3.  In the greenhouse - 4.  Pain - 5.  Dreams
  • Don Chisciotte della Mancia (1976/78). Suite dal concerto (concert suite) from the opera of the same name after Giovanni Paisiello and Giovanni Battista Lorenzi for 2 sopranos, tenor (buffo), baritone, wind orchestra and chamber orchestra
1st  Sinfonia - 2nd  Battaglia con pastori - 3rd  Duetto - 4th  Sinfonia, Aria di Sancio, Triste canzone, Menuetto - 5th  Duetto, Quartetto - 6th  Sinfonia
Part I: 1.  Greetings from his faithful to Friedrich August the beloved on his return from England on August 9, 1844 - 2.  The boy and the Christmas tree
Part II: Seven compositions for Goethe's “ Faust ” . 1.  Song of the soldiers - 2.  Gretchen at the spinning wheel - 3.  Brandner's song - 4.  Song of Mephistopheles - 6.  Melodrama - 7.  Farmer under the linden tree
Part III: Eight French Songs . 1.  Berceuse . Text: anonymous - 2nd  ecstasy . Text: Victor Hugo (from Les Orientales ) - 3rd  assassination . Text: Victor Hugo (from Les Orientales ) - 4.  La tombe dit a la rose . Text: Victor Hugo (from Les voix intérieures ) - 5th  Mignonne Text: Pierre de Ronsard - 6th  Tout n'est qu'images fugitives [ Soupir ]. Text: Jean Reboul (1796–1864) - 7.  Les deux grenadiers (The two grenadiers) . Text: Heinrich Heine , in French by François-Adolphe Loeve-Veimar - 8.  Adieux de Marie Stuart . Text: Pierre-Jean de Béranger

Stage works

Operas, musical plays

  • The lyre of the Palamedes (1943; lost?). Opera. Libretto: Erich Jüngst († 1943)
  • The Wonder Theater (1948). Opera for actors. Libretto : based on the interlude El retablo de las maravillas by Miguel de Cervantes , German by Adolf Friedrich von Schack . Premiere May 7, 1949 Heidelberg (Städtische Bühnen; director: Heinrich Köhler-Helffrich; stage design: Heinrich Nötzold; conductor: Carl Caelius)
    • New version for singers (1964; as part 1 of a triptych: The Wonder Theater - A Country Doctor - The End of a World ). Premiere November 30, 1965 Frankfurt am Main ( opera ; director: Hans Neugebauer ; set and costumes: Jacques Camurati; conductor: Wolfgang Rennert)
    • Reduced version (1964) by Henning Brauel (for actors and 5 musicians). Premiere September 30, 1965 Berlin ( Schillertheater , workshop stage)
  • A country doctor (1951; revised 1994). Radio opera. Libretto: Hans Werner Henze (based on the story of the same name [1917/18] by Franz Kafka ). First broadcast November 29, 1951 Hamburg ( Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk ; director: Otto Kurth; orchestra of the Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk, conductor: Harry Hermann Spitz). Premiere (scenic adaptation) May 27, 1953 Cologne. Premiere (revised version) September 27, 1996 Cologne (studio for electronic music of the WDR ; WDR Sinfonieorchester Cologne , conductor: Markus Stenz )
    • Monodrama for baritone and small orchestra (1964): see under Vocal works for solo part (s) and ensemble / orchestra
    • Stage version (1964): Opera in one act. Premiere November 30, 1965 Frankfurt (Opera; direction, set design and costumes: Hans Neugebauer; conductor: Wolfgang Rennert)
  • Boulevard Solitude (1950/51; revised 1952 and 1974). Lyrical drama in 7 pictures. Libretto: Grete Weil , scenario: Walter Jockisch (1907–1970) (based on the novel Manon Lescaut [1728] by Antoine-François Prévost ). Premiere February 17, 1952 Hanover ( opera house ; director: Walter Jockisch; choreography: Otto Krüger; set and costumes: Jean-Pierre Ponnelle ; conductor: Johannes Schüler )
    • A small potpourri (2000) from Boulevard Solitude for flute, vibraphone, harp and piano: see under Chamber Music - Quartets for Mixed Instrumentation
  • The End of a World (1953; revised 1993). Radio opera. 2 acts with prologue and epilogue. Libretto: Wolfgang Hildesheimer . First broadcast December 4, 1953 Hamburg (Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk; director: Curt Reiss; orchestra of the Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk, conductor: Harry Hermann Spitz). Premiere (revised version) September 27, 1996 Cologne (studio for electronic music of the WDR; WDR symphony orchestra, conductor: Markus Stenz)
    • Stage version (1964): Opera buffa in one act. Premiere November 30, 1965 Frankfurt (Opera; conductor: Wolfgang Rennert; director: Hans Neugebauer; set and costumes: Jacques Camurati)
  • King Hirsch (1953-1956). Opera in 3 acts. Libretto: Heinz von Cramer (based on the fairy tale play Il Re Cervo [1772] by Carlo Gozzi ). Premiere (fragmentary) September 23, 1956 Berlin ( Deutsche Oper ; director: Leonard Steckel ; stage design: Jean-Pierre Ponnelle ; conductor: Hermann Scherchen ). First broadcast: October 4, 1957 RAI (conductor: Nino Sanzogno [1911–1983]; choir: Ruggero Machini). Premiere (with ARD broadcast) May 5, 1985 Stuttgart ( Württemberg State Opera ; director: Hans Hollmann ; set design: Hans Hoffer; costumes: Frida Parmeggiani ; conductor: Dennis Russell Davies ; choir: Ulrich Eistert). WP (concert version) of the duet What can we do : May 11, 2006 Munich ( Herkulessaal der Residenz ; Mojca Erdmann [soprano], Stuart Skelton [tenor]; Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra , conductor: Peter Ruzicka ))
    • Reduced version (1962): Il Re Cervo or The Odds of Truth . Opera in 3 acts. Premiere March 10, 1963 Kassel (State Theater; director: Hans Hartleb; set and costumes: Ekkehard Grübler (1928–2012); conductor: Hans Werner Henze)
    • 4th Symphony (1955; based on the forest scene from the finale of Act 2 by King Hirsch ): see under symphonies
    • Scenes and arias (1956), vocal symphony (1995): see under vocal works for solo part (s), choir and ensemble / orchestra
  • The Prince of Homburg (1958/59; revised 1991). Opera in 3 acts (9 pictures). Libretto: Ingeborg Bachmann (based on the play Prince Friedrich von Homburg by Heinrich von Kleist ). Premiere May 22, 1960 Hamburg ( State Opera ; Director: Helmut Käutner ; Set and costumes: Alfred Siercke; Conductor: Leopold Ludwig). WP (revised version) July 24, 1992 Munich ( Bavarian State Opera , Cuvilliés-Theater ; director: Nikolaus Lehnhoff; set and costumes: Gottfried Pilz; conductor: Wolfgang Sawallisch )
  • La Forza delle Circostanze ovvera Ella non riuscì a convincerlo (1959). Opera parody in 5 acts
  • Elegy for Young Lovers ( Elegy for Young Lovers ) (1959 to 1961; revised 1987). Opera in 3 acts. Libretto: Wystan Hugh Auden and Chester Kallman [1921–1975]. German version: Ludwig Landgraf, Werner Schachteli and Hans Werner Henze. Premiere May 20, 1961 Schwetzingen ( Rococo theater ; director: Hans Werner Henze; ​​set design: Helmut Jürgens; costumes: Sophie Schröck; ensemble of the Bavarian State Opera ; conductor: Heinrich Bender). WP (revised version) October 28, 1988 Venice ( Teatro La Fenice ; conductor: Markus Stenz )
    • Three arias (1960; revised 1993): see under Vocal works for solo part (s) and ensemble / orchestra
The young Lord (Henze) Deutsche Oper Berlin
  • The Young Lord (1964). Comic opera in 2 acts. Libretto: Ingeborg Bachmann (based on the parable The Ape as Man [from the fairy tale collection The Sheik of Alessandria and his slaves ] by Wilhelm Hauff ). Premiere April 7, 1965 Berlin ( Deutsche Oper ; director: Gustav Rudolf Sellner ; set and costumes: Filippo Sanjust ; conductor: Christoph von Dohnányi )
    • Interludes (1964) from the opera The Young Lord for orchestra: see under Other ensemble / orchestral works
    • Divertimenti (1964) from The Young Lord for 2 pianos: see under Chamber Music - Duos for Keyboard Instruments
  • The Bassarids ( The Bassariden ) (1964/65). Opera seria in one act with an interlude. Libretto: Wystan Hugh Auden and Chester Kallman (based on the drama Die Bacchen by Euripides ). German version: Helmut Reinold and Maria Bosse-Sporleder. Premiere August 6, 1966 Salzburg ( Großes Festspielhaus ; director: Gustav Rudolf Sellner ; stage design and costumes: Filippo Sanjust ; conductor: Christoph von Dohnányi )
    • New version (1992): music drama in one act (without intermezzo)
    • The Judgment of Calliope (The judgment of Calliope) (1964/1991). A satyr play (= intermezzo detached from the bassarids ). Premiere October 29, 1997 Gießen ( Stadttheater ; director: Guy Montavon ; set: Mark Väisänen; conductor: Michael Hofstetter )
      • Reduced version for voices, mandolin and harpsichord by Henning Brauel (1974)
    • Maenad Dance (1965), Adagio, Fugue and Maenad Dance (2004): see under Other ensemble / orchestral works
  • Moralities ( Morality plays , moralities ) (1967). Three scenic cantatas (games) for soloists, speakers, mixed choir (SATB) and small orchestra. Libretto: Wystan Hugh Auden (based on Aesop's fables ). German version: Maria Bosse-Sporleder. Premiere May 18, 1968 Cincinnati (May Festival; choir and soloists of the College Conservatory of Music, Combined High School Chorus and Children's Choir, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, conductor: Max Rudolf)
    • Small version (1970). Premiere April 1, 1970 Saarbrücken (congress hall; Wilhelm Pitsch [speaker], Charlotte Lehmann-Huber [soprano], Ingrid Stolz [alto], Georgios Chatsilias [tenor], Siegmund Nimsgern [bass]; choir of the State University of Music, Saarbrücken; Hans and Kurt Schmitt [pianos], Franz Zöller [harpsichord]; conductor: Herbert Simolzi)
1.  In the first age the frogs dwelt at peace (In primeval times the frogs lived peacefully at the pond) - 2.  When first had no second, before time was (Before time was, at the beginning of the beginning) - 3.  A ship put to sea (a ship set sail)
Part 1: The embarkation for sinking - Part 2: The ninth night and the morning
  • The long way to the apartment of Natascha Ungeheuer (1970/71). Show with 17th libretto: Gaston Salvatore . Premiere May 17, 1971 Rome (Teatro Olimpico / RAI ; William Pearson [baritone], Stomu Yamashta [drums]; Giuseppe Agostini [Hammond organ]; The Fires of London; Philip Jones Brass Ensemble ; Gunther Hampel Free Jazz Group; conductor: Hans Werner Henze)
1.  Planimetry - 2.  Attempts to harass - 3.  The veiled messengers - 4.  The listless watchdog - 5.  Introduction to the difficult bourgeoisie - 6.  Attempts to return to the bourgeoisie - 7. (untitled) - 8.  German song - 9.  Survey certificate - 10.  Language exercise (gallows song ) - 11.  Metaphentes
  • Fragments from a show (1971): see under Chamber Music - Brass Quintets
  • La Cubana or A Life for Art (1972/73; revised 1996). TV opera (Vaudeville) in 5 pictures. Libretto: Hans Magnus Enzensberger (based on motifs from the novel Canción de Rachel by Miguel Barnet ). First broadcast March 4, 1974 New York (Channel 13; WNET Opera Theater New York; director: Kirk Browning; set: Rouben Ter-Arutunian; conductor: Hans Werner Henze). Premiere May 28, 1975 in Munich ( Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz ; director: Imo Moszkowicz ; stage design and costumes: Jürgen Henze; ​​conductor: Peter Falk; choirs: Wilfried Koch)
    • New version: La piccola Cubana (1990/91/96), for chamber theater and a greatly reduced cast; by Jobst Liebrecht for chamber ensemble (2019/20).
    • Songs and Dances (1992/93) from the operetta La Cubana for mezzo-soprano and chamber ensemble: see under Vocal works for solo part (s) and ensemble / orchestra
  • Strike at Mannesmann (1973). Scenic cantata. Libretto: Erika Runge . Music: Dietrich Boeckle, Hans Werner Henze (artistic direction), Niels Frederic Hoffmann, Thomas Jahn, Luca Lombardi and Wilfried Steinbrenner. Premiere 1973 Berlin
  • We Come to the River (we reach the river) (1974-1976). Actions for Music. Libretto: Edward Bond . Premiere June 12, 1976 London ( Royal Opera House Covent Garden ; director: Hans Werner Henze; ​​set and costumes: Jürgen Henze; ​​conductor: David Atherton)
    • Mad People's Madrigal from We Come to the River for 12-part mixed choir: see Vocal works for solo voices / a cappella choir
  • The Hot Oven (1975). Weird opera. 5 files and 3 intermediate files. Texts: Friedrich Hitzer, Klaus Konjetzky , Wolfgang Florey, Niels Frederic Hoffmann, Thomas Jahn and Dieter Süverkrüp (based on the play Michel and Rosi by Friedrich Hitzer and Klaus Konjetzky). Music: Richard Blackfort, Henning Brauel, Peter Maxwell Davies , Michael Denhoff , Hans Werner Henze, Niels Frederic Hoffmann, Thomas Jahn, Geoffrey King and Francis Pinto. Premiere March 18, 1989 Kassel
  • Pollicino (1979/80). Favola per musica (fairy tales for music). Libretto: Giuseppe Di Leva (based on fairy tales by Carlo Collodi , the Brothers Grimm and Charles Perrault ). Premiere August 2, 1980 Montepulciano (5th  Cantiere Internazionale d'Arte ; children and adults from Montepulciano and the surrounding area; director: Willy Decker ; set design: Peter Nagel ; costumes: Marion Gerretz; Concentus Politianus, conductor: Jan Latham-Koenig )
    • Play music from Pollicino (1979/80) for amateur orchestra: see under Other ensemble / orchestral works
    • Sonatina (1979) from Pollicino for violin and piano: see under Chamber Music - Duos for String and Keyboard Instrument
    • Six pieces for young pianists (1980) from Pollicino : see under Chamber Music - Solos for Keyboard Instrument
    • Three fairy tale pictures from Pollicino for guitar (1980) / for 2 guitars (1997): see under Chamber Music - Solos / Duos for Plucked Instruments
  • The English Cat ( 1980–1983; revised 1990). A Story for Singers and Instrumentalists. 2 nudes (7 images). Libretto: Edward Bond (based on Peines de cœur d'une chatte anglaise by Honoré de Balzac ). German version: Ken Bartlett. Premiere June 2, 1983 Schwetzinger Festspiele (director: Hans Werner Henze; ​​set and costumes: Jakob Niedermeier; ensemble of the Württemberg State Opera Stuttgart, conductor: Dennis Russel Davies)
    • Minette (1992) for zither: see under Chamber Music - Solos for Plucked Instrument
    • Minette (1998) for 2 guitars: see under Chamber Music - Duos for Plucked Instruments
    • Nocturnal Serenade from The English Cat . Arrangement for soprano and piano (1996) by Martin Zehn: see under vocal works for solo voice and 1 instrument
  • Oedipus the Tyrant or The Father Chases Out His Son and Sends the Daughter to the Kitchen (1983). A game for 4 actors, tenor and 4 instrumentalists. Libretto: Hubert Hollmüller. Joint work with Hans-Jürgen von Bose , S. Holt and David Lang (* 1957). Premiere October 30, 1983 Kindberg
    • Neue Volkslieder und Hirtengesänge (1996) for bassoon, guitar and string trio: see under Chamber Music - Quintets for mixed scoring
  • The betrayed sea (1986–1989; revised 1992). Musical drama in 2 acts. Libretto: Hans-Ulrich Treichel (based on the novel Gogo No Eiko [ The sailor who betrayed the sea ] by Yukio Mishima ). Premiere May 5, 1990 Berlin ( Deutsche Oper ; Director: Götz Friedrich ; Set Design: Hans Hoffer; Costumes: Jan Skalicky; Conductor: Markus Stenz )
    • New version: Gogo No Eiko (2003; revised 2005). Premiere October 15, 2003 Tokyo (Suntory Hall; Mari Midorikawa, Tsuyoshi Mihara, Jun Takahashi, Yoshikazu Mera; Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra, conductor: Gerd Albrecht). WP (revised version) August 26, 2006 Salzburg (Festival; Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI, conductor: Gerd Albrecht )
    • La mano sinistra. Piece for Leon (1987; for Leon Fleisher ; on motifs from The betrayed sea ) for piano (left hand): see under chamber music - solos for keyboard instrument
  • Venus and Adonis (1993-1995). Opera in one act for singers and dancers. Libretto: Hans-Ulrich Treichel. Premiere January 11, 1997 Munich ( Bavarian State Opera )
  • L'Upupa and the triumph of love as a son (2000–2003). A German comedy in 2 acts (11 pictures). Libretto: Hans Werner Henze (based on an Arabic fairy tale). WP August 12, 2003 Salzburg ( Großes Festspielhaus ; with Laura Aikin [Badi'at], John Mark Ainsley [Demon], Alfred Muff [Al Radschi], Hanna Schwarz [Malik], Günter Missenhardt [Dijab], Matthias Goerne [Al Kasim ], Axel Köhler [Adschib], Anton Scharinger [Gharib]; director: Dieter Dorn ; set design: Jürgen Rose ; Vienna Philharmonic , Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor, conductor: Markus Stenz )
  • Phaedra . Concert opera in 2 parts (9 images). Libretto: Christian Lehnert . Premiere September 6, 2007 Berlin ( State Opera ; Director: Peter Mussbach ; Room: Ólafur Elíasson ; Costumes: Bernd Skodzig ; Light: Olaf Freese; Dramaturgy: Jens Schroth; Ensemble Modern, Conductor: Michael Boder)
  • Sacrifice (2009). Cantata (dramatic symphony, concert opera) for singers, instrumentalists and concert piano. Text (1919): Franz Werfel . WP (under the title Immolazione ) January 10, 2010 Rome ( Auditorium Parco della Musica ; John Tomlinson [stranger], Ian Bostridge [puppy], ?? [baritone], male choir and orchestra of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia , conductor and pianist: Antonio Pappano ). German premiere December 16, 2010 Bochum (Auditorium maximum of the Ruhr University ; Gerd Grochowski [stranger], Peter Hoare [puppy], Pjotr ​​Prochera [baritone], Egidius Kwartet: Jon Extabe Arzuga, Robert Coupe, Hans Wijers, Donald Bentvelsen [vocals ], Bochumer Symphoniker , conductor: Steven Sloane )
Orchestra: 2 (+ 2Picc + AFl) .2 (+ EH) .Heckelphon.2 (+ SSax + BKlar) .2 (+ KFg) - 2 (+ Wagner tuba) .2.2.0 - timpani - percussion (4) - harp - Celesta - piano - strings
  • Gisela! or: The strange and memorable ways of happiness (2010). Musical theater piece for singers, mimes, small mixed choirs and instruments. Libretto: Christian Lehnert, Michael Kerstan. PremiereSeptember 25, 2010 Gladbeck (machine hall Zeche Zweckel ; Ruhr.2010 ; Hanna Herfurtner [Gisela Geldmaier], Fausto Reinhart [Gennaro Esposito], Michael Dahmen [Hanspeter Schluckebier], students of the Folkwang University [courses in acting and dance]; director: Pierre Audi ; stage and costumes: Christof Hetzer ; lighting: Jean Kalman ; choreography: Jill Emerson, Gail Skrela; video: Martin Eidenberger; dramaturgy: Klaus Bertisch; studio musikFabrik , youth ensemble of the Landesmusikrat NRW, youth chamber choir of the Dortmund Choir Academy , conductor: Steven Sloane). WP (revised version) November 20, 2010 Dresden ( Semperoper ; Nadja Mchantaf [Gisela Geldmeier], Markus Butter [Hanspeter Schluckebier], Giorgio Berrugi [Gennaro Esposito], Gala El Hadidi [a tourist], Birgit Fandrey [another tourist], Ilhun Jung [Antonio Scarlatti, innkeeper / a tourist], Gerald Hupach [another tourist], Peter Lobert [the German consul general], Andreas Waschneck, Ronny Philipp, Mario Weigel [artists]; director: Elisabeth Stöppler ; set design: Rebecca Ringst; Costumes: Frank Lichtenberg; lighting: Fabio Antoci; video: Andreas Etter; dramaturgy: Stefan Ulrich; Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden [stage music director: Wieland Heinze], Sächsischer Staatsoperchor Dresden [rehearsal: Pablo Assante], conductor: Erik Nielsen)
Orchestra: 2 (+ picc + AFl) .3 (+ EH + Heckelphon) .2 (+ BKlar) .2 (+ KFg) - 2nd Wagner tuba. 2.2.1 - timpani - percussion (4) - harp - celesta - piano (+ Organ) - strings: 6.5.4.4.1

Ballets

1.  Allegro con brio - 2.  Allegretto con grazia - 3.  Vivace - 4.  Allegramente - 5.  Valse lente - 6.  Finale. Allegro maestoso
  • Jack Pudding (1949). Ballet in 3 parts. Premiere December 30, 1950 Wiesbaden ( Hessisches Staatstheater ; Choreography: Edgar von Pelchrzim [1904–1990]; Stage design: Jean-Pierre Ponnelle ; Conductor: Hans Werner Henze)
    • New version (1995): Le disperazioni del Signor Pulcinella (The Despair of Mr Pulcinella) . Comedia di balletto con canto (dance show with singing) (=  dance lessons. A trilogy [1996], part 1). Libretto: Sergio Sivori (after Molière ). Premiere May 25, 1997 Schwetzingen ( Festival ; Choreography: Dieter Heitkamp; Ballet of the State Opera Unter den Linden ; Radio Symphony Orchestra Stuttgart , Conductor: Sebastian Weigle )
      • Pulcinella disperato. Fantasia (1992) for piano: see under Chamber Music - Solos for Keyboard Instrument
      • Pulcinellas Erzählungen (1996) for chamber orchestra: see under Other ensemble / orchestral works
  • Pink silver . Narrative Ballet (1950). Premiere (concert version ) May 8, 1951 Berlin ( Titania Palast ; RIAS special concert, conductor: Ferenc Fricsay ). Premiere (scenic) October 15, 1958 Cologne (Städtische Bühnen; Choreography: Lisa Kretschmar; Set design: Walter Gondolf; Costumes: Ottowerner Meyer; Conductor: Siegfried Köhler )
    • Revised (1990): The vocal cloth of the chamber singer Rosa Silber . Exercise with Stravinsky on a picture by Paul Klee . World premiere January 14, 1991 London (Barbican Hall; Parnassus Ensemble, conductor: Hans Werner Henze)
1.  Introduction - 2.  Pas d'action - 3.  Deux variations - 4.  Intermède - 5.  Pas de deux - 6.  Conclusion
  • Le Tombeau d'Orphée (1950). ballet
  • Labyrinth (1951). Choreographic fantasy. WP (concert version) May 29, 1952 (soloists of the Hessischer Rundfunk, conductor: Hans Werner Henze)
    • New version (1996): Labyrinth . Ballet in one act (=  dance lessons. A trilogy [1996], part 3). Libretto: Mark Baldwin. Premiere May 25, 1997 Schwetzingen (Festival; Choreography: Mark Baldwin; Ballet of the State Opera Unter den Linden; Radio Symphony Orchestra Stuttgart, Conductor: Sebastian Weigle)
  • Pas d'action (1952). ballet
    • New version (1964): Tancredi . Ballet in 2 pictures. Libretto: Peter Csobàdi. Premiere May 18, 1966 Vienna ( State Opera ; Choreography: Rudolf Nurejew ; Set design and costumes: Barry Kay; Conductor: Ernst Märzendorfer )
    • Suite Tancredi (1952): see under Other ensemble / orchestral works
  • The Idiot (1952). Mimodrama . Idea: Tatjana Gsovsky . Premiere September 1, 1952 Berlin ( Hebbel-Theater ; choreography: Tatjana Gsovsky; stage design: Jean-Pierre Ponnelle ; conductor: Rudolf Alberth ; with Klaus Kinski )
    • New version (1953). Libretto: Ingeborg Bachmann ( Myschkins monologues , 1953; based on the novel Der Idiot by Fyodor Michailowitsch Dostojewski ). Premiere January 8, 1960 Berlin ( Deutsche Oper ; Choreography: Tatjana Gsovsky). WP (revised version) March 29, 1996 Basel (director: Andreas Rochholl; set: Andreas Tschui; conductor: Joachim Krause)
    • Revised new version (1990): Paraphrases on Dostoyevsky. Put into words for Prince Myshkin by Ingeborg Bachmann for speaking voice and 11 instruments: see under Vocal works for solo part (s) and ensemble / orchestra
    • Dance and salon music (1952/1989) from the mimodrama Der Idiot : see under Other ensemble / orchestral works
  • Maratona ( Maratona di danza ; 1956). Dance drama in one picture. Libretto: Luchino Visconti . Premiere September 24, 1957 Berlin ( Städtische Oper ; director: Luchino Visconti; choreography: Dick Sanders; set design: Renzo Vespignani [1924–2001]; conductor: Richard Kraus )
    • Ballet suite Maratona (1956) for two jazz bands and orchestra: see under Other ensemble / orchestral works
  • Undine (Ondine) . Ballet in 3 acts (1956/57). Libretto: Frederick Ashton (after Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué ). Premiere October 27, 1958 London ( Royal Opera House Covent Garden ; Margot Fonteyn [Undine]; Royal Ballet , choreography: Frederick Ashton; set design: Lila De Nobili; conductor: Hans Werner Henze)
    • Jeux de Tritons (1956/57; extended 1967) for piano and orchestra, wedding music (1957) for symphonic wind ensemble, Trois Pas de Tritons (1958) for orchestra, Undine. First and Second Suite (1958) for orchestra: see under Other ensemble / orchestral works
  • L'usignolo dell'imperatore ( The Emperor's Nightingale ; 1959; revised 1970). Ballet pantomime. Libretto: Giulio Di Majo (based on the fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen ). WP (scenic) September 16, 1959 Venice ( Biennale di Venezia , Teatro La Fenice ; director: Franco Enriquez; set design: Attilio Colonnello; Fiorella Coba [dancer]; actor from the Piccolo Teatro Milan; conductor: Ettore Gracis). Premiere (concert version) September 26, 1959 Berlin ( Aurèle Nicolet [flute]; soloists of the Berlin Philharmonic , conductor: Hans Werner Henze)
    • Reduced version (1970) by Henning Brauel (for flute, celesta, piano and percussion)
  • Orpheus (1978). A story in 6 scenes (2 acts). Libretto: Edward Bond . Premiere March 17, 1979 Stuttgart ( Württemberg State Opera ; Choreography: William Forsythe ; Stage Design: Axel Manthey [1945–1995]; Costumes: Joachim Herzog; Conductor: Woldemar Nelsson [1938–2006])
    • New version (1986; for smaller orchestras). Premiere June 20, 1986 Vienna ( State Opera ; direction and choreography: Ruth Berghaus ; set design: Hans Dieter Schaal ; costumes: Marie-Luise Strandt; conductor: Ulf Schirmer )
    • Concert version (1978) for speaker and orchestra: see under Vocal works for solo part (s) and ensemble / orchestra
    • Apollo trionfante (1979), Arias of Orpheus (1979), Dramatic Scenes from Orpheus (1979): see under Other ensemble / orchestral works
    • Toccata senza Fuga (1979) from Orpheus for organ, Euridice (1986) for harpsichord: see under Chamber Music - Solos for Keyboard Instrument
  • Le fils de l'air (The Son of Air) or: L'enfant changé en jeune homme (1995/96). Ballet (=  dance lessons. A trilogy [1996], part 2). Libretto: Jean Cocteau (1962). Premiere May 25, 1997 Schwetzingen (Festival; Choreography: Alain Marty; Ballet of the State Opera Unter den Linden ; Radio Symphony Orchestra Stuttgart , Conductor: Sebastian Weigle )
Prélude - La Dame - Le Garçon - Les forains - Le cerceau - Grande Sarabande Bohémienne - Pas d'action - La dame nerveuse - Reprise de la danse - Scène et danse des doubles - Variation - L'enfant disparu - Vague resemblance - Le jeune acrobate - Bohemian fifths. Leçons de danse - Pas d'action - Meditation - Scène - Epilogue
  • Leçons de danse (1995/96) for 2 pianos (or piano and harp) and percussion: see under Chamber Music - Trios for Mixed Instrumentation
  • Erlkönig (1996) for orchestra, Gypsy tunes and Sarabanden (1996/98) from Le fils de l'air for orchestra: see under Other ensemble / orchestral works

Edits

Music for drama, radio drama and film

Incidental music

Radio play music

Film music

Triplo concerto barocco (2003) for chamber orchestra: see Concerts and other ensemble and orchestral works
  • zu Nínguem duas vezes ( To Lisbon , Portugal / Federal Republic of Germany / France 1984; director: Jorge Silva Melo ; screenplay: Jorge Silva Melo, Luíza Neto Jorge [1939–1989], Miguel Lobo Antunes and João Canijo ), for viola, guitar and organ
  • zu L'amour à mort ( love to death , France 1984; director: Alain Resnais, screenplay: Jean Gruault)
    • Concert version Sonata for six players (1984): see under Chamber Music - Sextet for Mixed Instrumentation
  • to Eine Liebe von Swann (Federal Republic of Germany 1984; with David Graham , Gerd Kühr and Marcel Wengler (* 1946); direction and screenplay: Volker Schlöndorff, based on a chapter from Part 1 [1913] of the novel In Search of the Lost Time of Marcel Proust )
  • for Architecture at the Crossboard ( theme music to a television series by Peter Adam, 1985), for celesta , vibraphone , marimbaphone , percussion, harp and piano
  • zu Comrades (Great Britain 1986; direction and screenplay: Bill Douglas [1934–1991]; music: David Graham and Hans Werner Henze), for percussion and strings

Films in which music by Henze is quoted:

Project support

In courses, Hans Werner Henze encouraged young people, laypeople and students to invent new pieces together and bring them to the stage. The results of this regional and communal cultural work were a .:

Awards

Publications

  • Undine - diary of a ballet . Munich 1959.
  • Essays . Mainz: Schott 1964.
  • Music and politics. Writings and conversations 1955–1984 . Ed. V. Jens Brockmeier. Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag , Munich 1984 (1st edition 1976).
  • New Aspects of Musical Aesthetics , Vol. 1–5. Fischer, Frankfurt 1978-1999
  • Travel songs with bohemian fifths. Autobiographical communications 1926–1995 . Fischer, Frankfurt 1996
  • How 'The English Cat' came about . Fischer, Frankfurt 1997
  • Composing in school. Notes from a workshop . Schott, Mainz 1998.
  • Travel songs with bohemian fifths . Fischer, Frankfurt 2001
  • L'Upupa. Night pieces from the Orient. Autobiographical messages . Berlin 2003.
  • Hans Werner Henze - Ingeborg Bachmann: Letters of a friendship . Piper, Munich 2004
  • Phaedra. A diary. In collaboration with Christian Lehnert . Wagenbach, Berlin 2007
  • André Müller: Exposures. Interviews. Wilhelm Goldmann Verlag , Munich 1982 ISBN 978-3-442-03887-9
  • "Between Cultures" (= New Aspects of Musical Aesthetics I). Ed. Hans Werner Henze, Fischer, Frankfurt a. M. 1979.
  • "The characters." (= New Aspects of Musical Aesthetics II). Ed. Hans Werner Henze, Fischer, Frankfurt a. M 1981.
  • "Courses. Education in Music" (= New Aspects of Musical Aesthetics III). Ed. Hans Werner Henze, Fischer, Frankfurt a. M. 1986.
  • "The ciphers. Music and language" (= New Aspects of Musical Aesthetics IV). Ed. Hans Werner Henze, Fischer, Frankfurt a. M. 1990.
  • "Music and Myth" (= New Aspects of Musical Aesthetics V). Ed. Hans Werner Henze, Fischer, Frankfurt a. M. 1999.

literature

  • Norbert Abels , Elisabeth Schmierer : Hans Werner Henze and his time . Laaber Verlag, Laaber 2013
  • Christian Bielefeldt : Hans Werner Henze and Ingeborg Bachmann. Observations on the intermediality of music and poetry . Transcript, Bielefeld 2003
  • John Bokina : Opera and Politics: From Monteverdi to Henze . Yale University Press, New Haven 1997
  • Marion Fürst : Hans Werner Henze's 'Tristan'. A work monograph . Menneles, Neckargemünd 2000
  • Sabine Giesbrecht and Stefan Hanheide (eds.): Hans Werner Henze - Political-humanitarian engagement as an artistic perspective . University Press Rasch, Osnabrück 1998
  • Deborah Hochgesang : Hans Werner Henze's operas in the mirror of German-language contemporary music criticism until 1966 . Scientific publishing house WVT, Trier 1995
  • Horst Huber : timpani and drums in the works of Hans Werner Henze. Timpani and Percussion in the Works of Hans Werner Henze . Books on Demand , Norderstedt 2006
  • Hans-Klaus Jungheinrich (Ed.): Over the course of time. Continuity and change at Hans Werner Henze . Schott, Mainz 2002
  • Michael Kerstan , Clemens Wolken : HWH - contemporary composer . Berlin 2006
  • Klaus Oehl : The opera "König Hirsch" (1953–1955) by Hans Werner Henze . Pfau, Saarbrücken 2003
  • Virginia Palmer-Füchsel : Henze, Hans Werner , In: The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians , 2nd ed. Ed. by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell. Macmillan, London
  • Peter Petersen : Hans Werner Henze. A political musician . Argument, Hamburg 1988
  • Peter Petersen : Hans Werner Henze. Works from 1984-93 (= Kölner Schriften zur Neue Musik, Vol 4.). Schott, Mainz 1995, ISBN 3-7957-1894-5
  • Peter Petersen (Ed.): Hans Werner Henze. The lectures of the international Henze Symposium at the Musicological Institute of the University of Hamburg. June 28th to 30th, 2001 (= Hamburger Jahrbuch für Musikwissenschaft , vol. 20. Frankfurt 2003)
  • Peter Petersen : “Hans Werner Henze - Ingeborg Bachmann. 'Undine' and 'Tasso' in ballet, story, concert and poem ”, Schliengen, Argus 2014 ISBN 978-3-931264-17-8
  • Peter Petersen : Hans Werner Henze, article (116 pp.) In: Composers of the Present , Munich 2019
  • Jens Rosteck : Hans Werner Henze: roses and revolutions . Propylaea, Berlin 2009 ISBN 978-3-549-07350-6
  • Klaus Schultz : Hans Werner Henze. To an exhibition. Kulturforum Bonn 1976
  • Julia Spinola : Desires do not know space and time . In: FAZ , 8. September 2007, p. 33
  • Ulrich Tadday (Ed.): Hans Werner Henze - Music and Language . In: Text + kritik , 2006
  • Antje Tumat, Michael Zywietz (Ed.): Genus. Gender. Singing. New research perspectives on Hans Werner Henze's work . Hanover 2018.
  • Jan Brachmann: The wild euphony . In: Welt am Sonntag , June 25, 2006.

Performances (focus)

  • In the Ruhr area there was a Henze focus in the 2010/2011 season at various performance locations, also outside of it (e.g. in Kleve ), including rarely performed pieces. RUHR.2010 - European Capital of Culture - “The Henze Project. New music for a metropolis ”.

Web links

Commons : Hans Werner Henze  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christof Siemes, Claus Spahn: I was close to surrender in the last few months . In: Die Zeit , No. 31/2003.
  2. ↑ Peter Petersen: You shouldn't cry, says one piece of music - Hans Werner Henze on his 80th birthday . In: Berliner Zeitung , July 1, 2006, p. 20.
  3. ↑ April 20, 1944 was Hitler's 55th birthday. As part of the Führer cult practiced at that time , this was celebrated pompously. For those born in 1927, the responsible Reich Treasurer of the NSDAP decided on January 7, 1944, that the admission age should be reduced from 18 to 17 years. See: Order 1/44 of the Reich Treasurer in facsimile ( memento from January 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) at the Federal Archives, accessed on July 12, 2013.
  4. ↑ Malte Herwig: Das stupe Dur der Adapted , Weltwoche, February 11, 2009, accessed on July 12, 2013.
  5. ^ Franziska Augstein : HW Henze and the NSDAP . ( Memento of March 3, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Süddeutsche Zeitung, February 12, 2009, accessed on July 12, 2013.
  6. ↑ Twelve-tone opera for actors: With a lot of depth . In: Der Spiegel . No. 20 , 1949, pp. 24-25 ( online ).
  7. ↑ Harenberg composers lexicon . Mannheim 2004. p. 417
  8. ↑ queer.de: What is still missing , accessed on July 12, 2013.
  9. ↑ Enthusiasm and ugh for Henze opera. Arbeiter-Zeitung, July 14, 1976, p. 10, accessed July 12, 2013.
  10. ↑ Christine Lemke-Matwey : Animals, death and sacred landscapes . Der Tagesspiegel, August 30, 2006, accessed on July 12, 2013.
  11. ↑ Clemens Wolken: Call me Maestro . In: Crescendo - Das Klassikmagazin , June 2006, pp. 20 ff.
  12. ^ Peter Uehling: Ho - Ho - Ho Chi Minh! In: Berliner Zeitung , November 10, 2006
  13. ↑ Longing for the full, wild euphony . ( Memento of October 30, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Schott-Verlag, report on the death of Hans Werner Henze; Retrieved July 12, 2013.
  14. ↑ Announcement of the premiere of We come to the river - We come to the river ( Memento from October 4, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) on the Semperoper homepage, accessed on July 12, 2013.
  15. ↑ Obituaries: FAZ: He was looking for the beauty and shine of truth , spiegel.de , sueddeutsche.de , zeit.de ( memento from August 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), welt.de , Bayerischer Rundfunk ( memento from October 30 2012 in the Internet Archive ), dradio.de , WDR (WestART) , Rheinische Post (obituary by Wolfram Goertz )
  16. ↑ BR / Leporello ( Memento from August 1, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
  17. ↑ Harenberg composers lexicon . Mannheim 2004. p. 418
  18. ^ Hermann Conen: Reading Shakespeare - listening to Henze. An evening with Hans Werner Henze's 2 sonatas “Royal Winter Music” for guitar. In: Guitar & Laute 5, 1983, No. 6, pp. 416-423 (part 1); 6, 1984, Issue 1, pp. 31-36 (Part 2), Issue 2, pp. 49-55 (Part 3).
  19. ↑ Ernst Schnabel and Hans Werner Henze , accessed on August 6, 2014.
  20. ↑ Elisabeth Richter: The sounds and the imagination live in the soul. Neue Musikzeitung , December 1997 / January 1998, p. 32
  21. ^ Joint work with his students: "Communal Opera" by Henze . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna September 8, 1987, p. 27 , bottom right ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  22. ↑ Müller's various interview partners, including Henze
personal data
SURNAME Henze, Hans Werner
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Henze, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer
DATE OF BIRTH July 1, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Gutersloh
DATE OF DEATH October 27, 2012
Place of death Dresden