Hans Werner Henze

Hans Werner Henze is a German Compositeur , born on July 1st 1926 with Gütersloh and residing in Italy since 1961.

Hans Werner Henze wrote 10 Symphonie S and several opera S, of which some in collaboration with the Austrian poetess Ingeborg Bachmann. It also engaged with the Extreme-left in the years 1960.

Its musical language is in the line of the lyric Sérialisme of Alban Berg and Karl Amadeus Hartmann.

Major operas

Der König Hirsch (the King stag)
The Bassarids (Bassarides)
Boulevard Loneliness
DER junge Lord (the young Lord)
Elegy for Young Lovers (Reduced for young lovers)

Various works

the English She-cat , Opera in two acts, drawn from the news of Honore de Balzac: Heartbreaks of an English she-cat , booklet of Edward Jump, music of Hans Werner Henze. world creation with the Festival of Schwetzingen in 1983, coproduction with the Opera of Lyon in 1984.

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