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Hans Werner Henze
12+ albums
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Hans Werner Henze (born in Gütersloh, Westphalia, 1 July 1926, died in Dresden, 27 October 2012) was a German composer of prodigious output best known for "his consistent cultivation of music for the theatre throughout his life". His music is extremely varied in style, having been influenced by serialism, atonality, Stravinsky, Italian music, Arabic music and jazz, as well as traditional schools of German composition. Henze was also known for his political convictions. He left Germany for Italy in 1953 because of a perceived intolerance towards his leftist politics and homosexuality. He lived more recently in the village of Marino in the central Italian region of Lazio, and in his final years still traveled extensively, in particular to Britain and Germany, as part of his work. An avowed Marxist and member of the Communist Party of Italy, Henze produced compositions honoring Ho Chi Minh and Che Guevara. The librettist of his requiem for Che Guevara, titled Das Floß der Medusa (The Raft of Medusa), was among several people arrested at the 1968 Hamburg premiere in the riot that followed the placing of a red flag on the stage. Henze spent a year teaching in Cuba, though he later became disillusioned with Castro. Henze began composing at the age of twelve. He studied at the Brunswick State Music School and, after military service, at the Institute for Church Music in Heidelberg and with Wolfgang Fortner. He attended the early Darmstadt International Summer Schools for New Music
top songs
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II. Bottom’s Dream: Adagietto, con comodo – Adagio
2,3072No. 3. Lento
1,7193Fantasia for Strings: 4. Allegro moderato - Meno mosso
1,6614No. 2. Allegro rubato
1,6295No. 3. Hirtenlied I (Shepherd's Song I)
1,5726II. Morgenlied
1,4047No. 1. Tranquillamente
1,2688I. Tranquillamente
1,2129No. 4. Hirtenlied II (Shepherd's Song II)
1,11710V. Rezitativ
1,091albums
HENZE: Guitar Music, Vol. 1
HENZE: Violin Concerto Nos. 1 and 3 / 5 Night-Pieces
Henze: Double Concerto for Oboe, Harp and Strings; Sonata for Strings; Fantasia for Strings
Henze: Scenes from "Elegy for Young Lovers"
HENZE: Violin Concertos Nos. 1 and 3
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Guitar Recital: Jeffrey McFadden
The Exorcist
Henze: Symphonies Nos.1 - 6
Henze: Whispers from Heavenly Death; 5 Neapolitan Songs; Being Beauteous; Essay on Pigs
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A Guide to Classical Music: The Trumpet
Henze: Violin & Viola Works
Hans Werner Henze: Heliogabalus Imperator. Works for Orchestra