Special Offer (July 2006)

Hans Werner Henze: 80th Birthday on July 1, 2006

In July 2006 the musical world celebrates the 80th birthday of Hans Werner Henze, one of the most important composers of our time. Over more than six decades, he has created a unique oeuvre which represents a milestone in the history of music. Born in Westphalia in 1926, Henze received his musical training at the time when National Socialism rose in Germany and its ideology pervaded and finally banned the creation and reception of modern music, art, and literature. He drew the conclusion from this experience that there is a decided political potential in the arts. This cognition was to surface explicitly in the music he composed thirty years later.

After the Second World War he resumed his formal education studying with Wolfgang Fortner and composed his first works in an elegant neo-classical style that while borrowing from Stravinsky and Hindemith already demonstrate the innate lyrical gift so typical of Henze's music in all its phases. In the late 1940s, Henze attended the Darmstadt Summer Courses and explored serialism. But in 1953 Henze left Germany and moved to Italy, where the complete change of scenery and culture brought a new richness and color into his music. After a period of overt political engagement in the late 1960s and 1970s, he turned again to more traditional forms.

Henze's abundant creative powers remain undimmed: his latest opera "L'Upupa and the triumph of filial love" was successfully premièred at the Salzburg Festival 2003. His latest orchestral work "Sebastian im Traum" (2004) was commissioned and performed by the Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Tonhalle Orchestra Zürich and the New York Philharmonic.

HARRASSOWITZ has compiled the following list of some recent editions of works by Henze. For further works by Hans Werner Henze please initiate a search in our database OttoEditions.

Stage Works

The Bassarids. Music drama in one act. Study score.
Mainz: Schott, 2005.
EUR 98.00
HARR ID 055007423

Pollicino. Favola per musica. Study score.
Mainz: Schott, 2005.
EUR 49.95
HARR ID 055018102

L'Upupa and the triumph of filial love. Opera. Full score.
London: Chester Music, 2004.
EUR 140.50
HARR ID 055024673

L'Upupa and the triumph of filial love. Opera. Vocal score.
London: Chester Music, 2004.
EUR 79.50
HARR ID 045023631

Der junge Lord. Comic opera in two acts. Study score.
Mainz: Schott, 2004.
EUR 99.00
HARR ID 045001337

Das verratene Meer. Music drama in two acts. Study score.
Mainz: Schott, 2002.
EUR 89.00
HARR ID 025034403

Complete Ballets. 11 study scores in slipcase.
Mainz: Schott, 2002.
EUR 149.00
HARR ID 025030193

Orchestral Works

Complete Symphonies. 10 study scores in slipcase.
Mainz: Schott, 2006.
EUR 98.00
HARR ID 060083588

Sinfonia N. 10. For large orchestra. Study score.
Mainz: Schott, 2006.
EUR 39.95
HARR ID 065012334

Sinfonie N. 9. For mixed chorus and orchestra. Study score.
Mainz: Schott, 2002.
EUR 44.95
HARR ID 025016860

Five messages for the Queen of Saba. For orchestra. Full score.
London: Chester Music, 2005.
EUR 44.50
HARR ID 065004291

Sieben Boleros. For large orchestra. Study score.
Mainz: Schott, 2005.
EUR 37.95
HARR ID 055014717

Drei Orchesterstücke auf eine Klaviermusik von Karl Amadeus Hartmann. Study score.
Mainz: Schott, 2003.
EUR 29.95
HARR ID 025030195

Scorribanda sinfonica. For orchestra. Full score.
London: Chester Music, 2002.
EUR 49.00
HARR ID 025026102

Chamber Music

Englische Balladen und Sonette. For violoncello and piano. Score and part.
Mainz: Schott, 2005.
EUR 34.95
HARR ID 055015596

Praeludien zu "Tristan". For piano.
Mainz: Schott, 2005.
EUR 11.95
HARR ID 055026231

Sonatina 1947. For solo piano.
London: Chester Music, 2003.
EUR 14.50
HARR ID 065004293

Trio in three movements. For violin, viola and violoncello. Score and parts.
Mainz: Schott, 2002.
EUR 34.95
HARR ID 025021574

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