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Hans Werner Henze
voc, 1926-2012 DE, Gütersloh
Composer of Classical
Hans Werner Henze (1 July 1926 – 27 October 2012) was a German composer. His large oeuvre of works 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. In particular, his stage works reflect "his consistent cultivation of music for the theatre throughout his life".
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Drei Mozartsche Orgelsonaten: II. Andantino (KV 67) on Henze: Konzertmusik, 3 Mozartsche Orgelsonaten, Il vitalino raddoppiato by Hans Werner Henze, Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg, Lin Liao & Ziyu He Fantasia For Strings: 4. Allegro moderato - Meno mosso on Henze: Double Concerto for Oboe, Harp and Strings; Sonata for Strings; Fantasia for Strings by Hans Werner Henze, Collegium Musicum Zürich & Paul Sacher Drei Mozartsche Orgelsonaten: III. Allegro (KV 328) on Henze: Konzertmusik, 3 Mozartsche Orgelsonaten, Il vitalino raddoppiato by Hans Werner Henze, Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg, Lin Liao & Ziyu He Tristan: I. Prologue on Tristan by Igor Levit, Franz Welser-Möst & Gewandhausorchester Carillon, Récitatif and Masque for Mandolin, Guitar, Harp: II. Récitatif. Adagio on Art of the Mandolin by Avi Avital Carillon, Récitatif and Masque for Mandolin, Guitar, Harp: III. Masque on Art of the Mandolin by Avi Avital Drei Tentos (from "Kammermusik"): Du schönes Bächlein / You Beautiful Stream on 20th Century Guitar by Julian Bream Tristan: II. Lament on Tristan by Igor Levit, Franz Welser-Möst & Gewandhausorchester Konzertmusik: II. Sehr langsam on Henze: Konzertmusik, 3 Mozartsche Orgelsonaten, Il vitalino raddoppiato by Hans Werner Henze, Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg, Lin Liao & Ziyu He Carillon, Récitatif and Masque for Mandolin, Guitar, Harp: I. Carillon. Allegretto on Art of the Mandolin by Avi AvitalTrack list and 30sec audio provided by 
Discography
| Title | Artist | Year | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| Royal Winter Music | Hans Werner Henze, Benjamin Britten, Otto Tolonen | 2017 | Single |
| Lieder von einer Insel, Orpheus Behind the Wire, Fünf Madrigale | Hans Werner Henze, Ensemble Modern, SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart, Marcus Creed | 2017 | Album |
| Neue Volkslieder Und Hirtengesänge Kammermusik 1958 | Hans Werner Henze, Andrew Staples, Markus Weidmann, Jürgen Ruck, Scharoun Ensemble Berlin, Daniel Harding | 2017 | Album |
| Complete Music For Solo Guitar | Hans Werner Henze, Andrea Dieci | 2016 | Album |
| Being Beauteous / Kammermusik 1958 | Hans Werner Henze | 2016 | Album |
| Violin Concerto No. 2 / Il Vitalino Raddoppiato | Hans Werner Henze - Peter Sheppard, Omar Ebrahim, Longbow, Parnassus Ensemble of London | 2015 | Album |
| Cembalo Avantgarde / Harpsichord Avantgarde | Violeta Dinescu • Hans Werner Henze • Peter Heeren • John Patrick Thomas • Anders Eliasson • Isang Yun • Roderik De Man — Kristian Nyquist | 2015 | Album |
| Piano Concertos Nos. 3 & 5 | Ludwig van Beethoven - Christoph Eschenbach, The London Symphony Orchestra, Hans Werner Henze, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa | 2014 | Album |
| Symphonies 2 & 10 | Hans Werner Henze - Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin / Marek Janowski | 2014 | Album |
| Konzerte For Flute & Harp | Hans Werner Henze, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, María Cecilia Muñoz, Sarah O'Brien, Kammerorchester Basel | 2014 | Album |
| The Complete Deutsche Grammophon Recordings | Hans Werner Henze | 2013 | Compil. |
| Symphonies 1 & 6 | Hans Werner Henze, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin / Marek Janowski | 2013 | Album |
| Symphonies 3-5 | Hans Werner Henze | 2011 | Album |
| Boulevard Solitude | Hans Werner Henze, Chor & Orchester Des Frankfurter Rundfunks, Kurt Schröder, Elfride Trötschel, Kurt Gester, Josef Traxel, Rudolf Gonszar, Walter Jenkel | 2011 | Album |
| The Early Recordings | Ludwig van Beethoven • Frédéric Chopin • Robert Schumann • Franz Schubert • Hans Werner Henze / Christoph Eschenbach | 2010 | Album |
| Hommages | Hans Werner Henze - ensemble recherche | 2010 | Album |
| Hans Werner Henze Und Das Requiem | Hans Werner Henze | 2010 | Album |
| Appassionatamente plus Lulu-Suite | Essener Philharmoniker, Julia Bauer, Stefan Soltesz, Hans Werner Henze, Alban Berg | 2010 | Album |
| Guitar Music 2 | Hans Werner Henze – Franz Halász | 2010 | Album |
| Music For Double Bass | Giacinto Scelsi, Isang Yun, Iannis Xenakis, Manfred Stahnke, Hans Werner Henze, Bent Lorentzen - Frank Reinecke | 2010 | Album |
| Symphony 9 | Hans Werner Henze | 2009 | Album |
| Gogo No Eiko | Hans Werner Henze | 2009 | Album |
| Symphonies 7 & 9 / Barcarola Per Grande Orchestra / Three Auden Songs | Hans Werner Henze – Ian Bostridge, Julius Drake, City Of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Berliner Philharmoniker, Sir Simon Rattle, Ingo Metzmacher | 2009 | Compil. |
| Symphonies 7 & 8 | Hans Werner Henze | 2008 | Album |
| Symphonie No. 8 / Nachstücke Und Arien / Die Bassariden | Hans Werner Henze | 2008 | Album |
| Hudební Fórum Hradec Králové | Hans Werner Henze, Franz Schubert / Luciano Berio, Ivan Ženatý, Filharmonie Hradec Králové, Ondřej Kukal / Martin Turnovský | 2007 | Album |
| Edition Klavier-Festival Ruhr | Hans Werner Henze, Christian Chamorel, Sigfried Mauser & Friends | 2007 | Album |
| 20th Century Portraits: Henze | Hans Werner Henze | 2007 | Album |
| El Cimarrón | Hans Werner Henze - El Cimarrón Ensemble | 2007 | Album |
| Violin Concertos Nos. 1 And 3 / Five Night-Pieces | Hans Werner Henze - Peter Sheppard, Aaron Shorr, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Saarbrücken, Christopher Lyndon-Gee | 2006 | Album |
| Symphony No. 6 - Sebatian In Traum | Gustav Mahler, Hans Werner Henze, Concertgebouworkest, Mariss Jansons | 2006 | Album |
| "Was Ich Suche, Ist Wohlklang" | Hans Werner Henze | 2006 | Album |
| Guitar Music 1 | Hans Werner Henze – Franz Halász | 2006 | Album |
| Ode To The West Wind • Five Neapolitan Songs • Three Dithyrambs | Hans Werner Henze | 2005 | Album |
| Symphonie No. 10 / La Selva Incantata / Quattro Poemi | Hans Werner Henze | 2005 | Album |
| Schubert Epilog | Luciano Berio, Hans Werner Henze, Aribert Reimann, Kurt Schwertsik, Hans Zender / Bamberger Symphoniker, Jonathan Nott | 2004 | Album |
| Boulevard Solitude (Zwischenspiel) Und Weitere Orchesterwerke | Hans Werner Henze | 2004 | Album |
| Cantata Della Fiaba Estrema / Novae De Infinito Laudes | Hans Werner Henze − Edita Gruberova • Ingrid Mayr • Werner Krenn • Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau • ORF-Chor • ORF Symphonieorchester • Leif Segerstam • Milan Horvat | 2003 | Album |
| Die Bassariden | Hans Werner Henze | 2003 | Album |
| Memoirs Of An Outsider (Composers Of Our Time) | Hans Werner Henze | 2003 | Single |
| Scorribanda Sinfonica, Sopra La Tomba Di Una Maratona, Antifone, 1. Konzert Für Klavier Und Orchester | Hans Werner Henze | 2003 | Album |
| Pollicino | Hans Werner Henze | 2003 | Album |
| Sechs Gesänge Aus Dem Arabischen / Three Auden Songs | Hans Werner Henze / Ian Bostridge, Julius Drake | 2001 | Album |
| Henze: Symphony No. 9 · Kancheli: And Farewell Goes Out Sighing... | Kurt Masur at the The New York Philharmonic Orchestra - Hans Werner Henze, Giya Kancheli | 2001 | Album |
| Drei Sinfonische Etüden / Quattro Poemi / Nachtstücke Und Arien / La Selva Incantata | Hans Werner Henze | 2001 | Album |
| Spirit Of Shakespeare | Hans Werner Henze - John Dowland - Stephan Stiens | 2000 | Album |
| Royal Winter Music | Hans Werner Henze / Maximilian Mangold | 1999 | Album |
| Chamber Music Vol 1: Works For 2 Guitars | Hans Werner Henze - Jürgen Ruck, Elena Casoli, Ensemble Villa Musica | 1999 | Album |
| Klavierquintette | Hans Werner Henze / Johannes Brahms | 1999 | Album |
| Sinfonia N. 9 | Hans Werner Henze – Berliner Philharmoniker, Ingo Metzmacher, Rundfunkchor Berlin, Gerd Müller-Lorenz | 1998 | Album |
| Undine | Hans Werner Henze – London Sinfonietta, Oliver Knussen | 1997 | Album |
| Wien Modern III | Luigi Dallapiccola • Hans Werner Henze • Paolo Perezzani • Iannis Xenakis, Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester / Claudio Abbado | 1997 | Album |
| Whispers From Heavenly Death,5 Neapolitan Lieder,Being Beauteous,Versuch Uber Schweine | Hans Werner Henze | 1996 | Compil. |
| 1. Konzert Für Violine Und Orchester / Ode An Den Westwind / Concerto Per Contrabbasso | Wolfgang Schneiderhan ● Siegfried Palm ● Gary Karr ● Hans Werner Henze | 1996 | Compil. |
| Royal Winter Music II / Carillon, Récitatif, Masque / An Eine Äolsharfe | Hans Werner Henze, Sabine Oehring, Boris Blacher Ensemble, Friedrich Goldmann | 1996 | Album |
| The 20th-Century Cello | Matt Haimovitz - Benjamin Britten · Hans Werner Henze · Zoltán Kodály · Luciano Berio | 1995 | Album |
| Requiem | Hans Werner Henze, Ensemble Modern | 1994 | Album |
| Symphonie 7 / Barcarola Per Grande Orchestra | Hans Werner Henze, Sir Simon Rattle, City Of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra | 1993 | Album |
| The Contemporary Trumpet | Graham Ashton, John Lenehan, Gregory Knowles / Michael Nyman, Hans Werner Henze, George Fenton, Luciano Berio, André Jolivet, Peter Maxwell Davies | 1993 | Album |
| Twentieth-Century Guitar | Julian Bream - Lennox Berkeley, Hans Werner Henze, Sir William Walton, Frank Martin, Albert Roussel, Alan Rawsthorne, Reginald Smith Brindle | 1993 | Compil. |
| To Orpheus | The New York Virtuoso Singers, Harold Rosenbaum - Hans Werner Henze, David Lang, George Perle, William Schuman, Michael Dellaira And Luigi Dallapiccola | 1992 | Album |
| The English Cat, Eine Geschichte für Sänger und Instrumentalisten von Edward Bond | Hans Werner Henze | 1991 | Album |
| Le Miracle De La Rose / An Eine Äolsharfe | Hans Werner Henze – Ensemble Modern, Hans Deinzer, David Tanenbaum | 1991 | Album |
| The Bassarids | Hans Werner Henze – Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Gerd Albrecht | 1991 | Album |
| El Cimarron (1969/79) | Reinbert Evers, Paul Yoder, Michael Faust, Mircea Ardeleanu, Hans Werner Henze | 1991 | Album |
| Compases / Violin Concerto No.2 / Apollo Et Hyazinthus | Hans Werner Henze - London Sinfonietta | 1991 | Compil. |
| Symphonies Nos. 1-6 | Hans Werner Henze - Berliner Philharmoniker, The London Symphony Orchestra | 1990 | Compil. |
| La Cubana Oder Ein Leben Für Die Kunst | Hans Werner Henze | 1989 | Album |
| Toccaten | Léon Boëllmann, Maurice Duruflé, Wolfgang Fortner, Eugène Gigout, Joseph Haas, Hans Werner Henze, Paul Hindemith, Walter Kraft, Max Reger, Charles-Marie Widor · Rosalinde Haas | 1987 | Album |
| Kammermusik = Chamber Music 1958 Über Die Hymne „In Lieblicher Bläue“ Von Friedrich Hölderlin (Für Tenor, Gitarre Und Acht Soloinstrumente = For Tenor, Guitar And Eight Solo-instruments) | Hans Werner Henze - Neil Jenkins, Timothy Walker, Scharoun Ensemble Berlin, Brynmor Jones | 1987 | Album |
| Streichquartette 1-5 | Hans Werner Henze - Arditti Quartet | 1986 | Album |
| Royal Winter Music | Hans Werner Henze | 1986 | Album |
| L`amour A Mort(Bande Originale Du Film) | Hans Werner Henze | 1984 | Album |
| Un Amour De Swann (Bande Originale Du Film) | Hans Werner Henze | 1984 | Album |
| Royal Winter Music I + Il | Hans Werner Henze, Reinbert Evers | 1983 | Album |
| Concierto Para Instrumentos De Cuerda | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart / Robert Schumann / Hans Werner Henze | 1983 | Album |
| Telemanniana / Scarlattiana / Bachiana | Hans Werner Henze / Alfredo Casella / Heitor Villa-Lobos - Marisa Tanzini, Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Gerd Albrecht | 1983 | Album |
| Barcarola - Trois Nocturnes | Hans Werner Henze, Claude Debussy / Gerd Albrecht, Charles Dutoit, NDR Sinfonieorchester | 1982 | Album |
| Henze: Los Caprichos - Blacher: Orchestervariationen über Ein Thema von Paganini | Hans Werner Henze, Boris Blacher | 1982 | Album |
| Soloconcert | William Schuman / Hans Werner Henze | 1981 | Compil. |
| New Music With Guitar, Volume I | David Starobin - Hans Werner Henze / Barbara Kolb / William Bland / Charles Wuorinen | 1981 | Album |
| Meister Bearbeiten Meister | Franz Liszt, Leoš Janáček, Giacomo Carissimi, Hans Werner Henze | 1979 | Album |
| Sonatina / Extensions / Concertazioni / Para-Tangents / Three Ideas | Thomas Stevens - Hans Werner Henze / Charles Dodge / Henri Lazarof / Aurelio De La Vega / Meyer Kupferman | 1979 | Album |
| Voices | Hans Werner Henze | 1978 | Album |
| Tristan | Hans Werner Henze, Homero Francesch, Kölner Rundfunk-Sinfonie-Orchester | 1977 | Album |
| Grimethorpe Special | The Grimethorpe Colliery Band, Elgar Howarth - Toru Takemitsu, Harrison Birtwistle, Hans Werner Henze | 1977 | Album |
| Streik Bei Mannesmann: Szenische Kantate | Hans Werner Henze / Dietrich Boekle / Niels Frederic Hoffmann / Luca Lombardi / Thomas Jahn / Wilfried Steinbrenner / Erika Runge / Ensemble Hinz & Kunst | 1976 | Album |
| Labyrinth / Apollo Et Hyazinthus / Wiegenlied Der Mutter Gottes / L'Usignolo Dell'Imperatore | Hans Werner Henze | 1975 | Album |
| Kammermusik / In Memoriam: Die Weisse Rose | Hans Werner Henze, Philip Langridge, Timothy Walker, London Sinfonietta | 1975 | Album |
| Compases Para Preguntas Ensimismadas / Violin Concerto No.2 | Hans Werner Henze, London Sinfonietta, Hirofumi Fukai, Brenton Langbein | 1974 | Album |
| Violin Concerto No.1 / Violin Concerto | Hans Werner Henze, Bernd Alois Zimmermann, Orchestra Of Radio Luxembourg, Arthur Grüber, Siegfried Köhler, Susanne Lautenbacher | 1973 | Album |
| Klavierkonzert Nr. 3 C-moll - Piano Concerto No. 3 In C Minor | Ludwig van Beethoven - Christoph Eschenbach, The London Symphony Orchestra, Hans Werner Henze | 1972 | Album |
| Prison Song / Turris Campanarum Sonantium / Seasons | Stomu Yamash'ta - Hans Werner Henze / Peter Maxwell Davies / Toru Takemitsu | 1972 | Album |
| Der Langwierige Weg In Die Wohnung Der Natascha Ungeheuer | Hans Werner Henze | 1972 | Album |
| Sinfonia Nr. 6 Für Zwei Kammerorchester | Hans Werner Henze | 1972 | Album |
| Werke Für Gitarre Solo | Leo Brouwer, Gaspar Sanz, Luis de Narváez, Fernando Sor, Cornelius Cardew, Hans Werner Henze | 1971 | Album |
| El Cimarrón | Hans Werner Henze | 1971 | Album |
| Versuch Über Schweine · Essay On Pigs / Concerto Per Contrabasso | Hans Werner Henze | 1970 | Album |
| 20th Century Music For Flute | Severino Gazzelloni / Margaret Kitchin Works By Hans Werner Henze, Goffredo Petrassi, Kazuo Fukushima & Bohuslav Martinů | 1970 | Album |
| 2. Konzert Für Klavier Und Orchester | Hans Werner Henze - Christoph Eschenbach, The London Philharmonic Orchestra | 1970 | Album |
| Doppio Concerto Per Oboe, Arpa Ed Archi - Fantasia Für Streicher - Sonte Per Archi | Hans Werner Henze | 1969 | Album |
| Carter / Henze | Elliott Carter / Hans Werner Henze | 1969 | Album |
| Das Floss Der Medusa | Hans Werner Henze - Edda Moser • Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau • Charles Regnier, NDR Chor Und NDR Sinfonieorchester • RIAS-Kammerchor • Knabenchor St. Nicolai | 1969 | Album |
| Ode An Den Westwind • Konzert Für Violine Und Grosses Orchester | Hans Werner Henze | 1969 | Album |
| 3 Kantaten | Hans Werner Henze, Edda Moser, RIAS-Kammerchor • Philharmonisches Kammerorchester Berlin | 1968 | Album |
| Der Junge Lord | Hans Werner Henze Und Orchester Der Deutschen Oper Berlin | 1968 | Album |
| Musen Siziliens / Moralitäten | Hans Werner Henze - Dresdner Kreuzchor / Staatskapelle Dresden / Gewandhausorchester Leipzig | 1968 | Album |
| "Undine", Suite Dal Balletto N. 1 | Hans Werner Henze | 1967 | Album |
| Jüdische Chronik - Aus Jüdischer Volkspoesie | Boris Blacher, Rudolf Wagner-Régeny, Karl Amadeus Hartmann, Hans Werner Henze, Paul Dessau - Dmitri Shostakovich | 1967 | Album |
| 20th Century Guitar | Julian Bream / Benjamin Britten, Hans Werner Henze, Frank Martin, Reginald Smith Brindle, Heitor Villa-Lobos | 1967 | Album |
| 5 Symphonien | Hans Werner Henze - Berliner Philharmoniker | 1966 | Album |
| Henze Hindemith Martinu | Werner Taube, Rudolf Dennemarck, Bohuslav Martinů, Hans Werner Henze, Paul Hindemith | 1966 | Album |
| Kammermusik 1958 Über Die Hymne "In Lieblicher Bläue" | Hans Werner Henze, Friedrich Hölderlin | 1965 | Album |
| Moderne Cellomusik | Bohuslav Martinů / Hans Werner Henze / Paul Hindemith | 1965 | Album |
| Suite From Ballet “Abraxas” / Wedding Music From “Undine” / Diversions For Orchestra | Werner Egk / Hans Werner Henze / Irving Fine – The Louisville Orchestra, Robert Whitney | 1964 | Album |
| Szenen Aus »Elegie Für Junge Liebende« | Hans Werner Henze | 1964 | Album |
| Cembalo Modern + Jazz | Hans Werner Henze | 1964 | Album |
| Szenen Aus »Elegie Für Junge Liebende« | Hans Werner Henze | 1964 | Album |
| Grosser Kunstpreis Des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen 1955/1956 | Wolfgang Fortner / Hans Werner Henze | 1960 | Album |
| Fünf Neapolitanische Lieder (1956) / Römische Elegien (1952) | Hans Werner Henze / Giselher Klebe - Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Bernhard Minetti, Carl Seemann | 1958 | Album |
| Les Concerts Du Domaine Musical - III Concert Saison 1956 | Orchestre Du Domaine Musical - Giovanni Gabrieli / Igor Stravinsky / Hans Werner Henze / Olivier Messiaen - Yvonne Loriod, Rudolf Albert | 1956 | Album |
| Zeitgenössische Musik Für Bläser | Riccardo Malipiero / Wolfgang Fortner / Hans Werner Henze / Karlheinz Stockhausen / Günther Becker - Danzi Kwintet / Heinz Holliger | Album | |
| Solo Cello - 20th Century Works For Solo Cello | Wolfgang Boettcher - Paul Hindemith / Ernst Krenek / Luigi Dallapiccola / György Ligeti / Hans Werner Henze / Jacques Ibert / Witold Lutoslawski / Aribert Reimann / Volker David Kirchner | Album | |
| Jenny Abel, Violine (Vol. 1) Spielt Pisendel, Bach, Bartók, Henze | Jenny Abel, Johann Georg Pisendel, Johann Sebastian Bach, Béla Bartók, Hans Werner Henze | Album | |
| Canzone Dalle Sacrae Symphonia 3 Et 5 / Oiseaux Exotiques / Concerto Per Il Marigny / Symphonie D'instruments à Vent | Giovanni Gabrieli / Hans Werner Henze / Olivier Messiaen / Igor Stravinsky | Album | |
| Henze: Sonata Per Violin Solo (1977) / Bach: Sonata 1ma A Violino Solo Senza Basso / Bartók: Sonata For Violin Solo (1944) | Jenny Abel Violin - Solo - Recital Hans Werner Henze / Johann Sebastian Bach, Béla Bartók | Album | |
| Symphonien - Konzerte | Hans Werner Henze | Album | |
| Vokalwerke | Hans Werner Henze | Compil. |
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