List of compositions by Hans Werner Henze explained

This is a list of works by German composer Hans Werner Henze (1926–2012). Many of them are published by Schott Music.

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Operas, music-theatre and other dramatic works

• Das Wundertheater (1948, première 1949)
• Die Gefangenen (1950)
• Boulevard Solitude (1951, première 1952)
• Ein Landarzt, radio opera (1951; stage version 1964, première 1965; revised 1994)
• Der tolle Tag (1951; withdrawn)
• Sodom und Gomorrha (1952)
• Das Ende einer Welt, radio opera (1953; stage version 1964, première 1965; revised 1993)
• König Hirsch (1952–55, première 1956; revised 1962 as Il re cervo oder Die Irrfahrten der Wahrheit (première 1963)
• Der sechste Gesang (1955)
• Die Zikaden (1955; withdrawn)
• Der Prinz von Homburg (1958, première 1960; new orchestration 1991)
• Elegy for Young Lovers (Elegie für junge Liebende) (1959–61, première 1961; revised 1987)
• Les caprices de Marianne (1962; withdrawn)
• Muriel ou Le temps d'un retour (1963; film score)
• Der Frieden (1964)
• The Bassarids (Die Bassariden) (1964–65, première 1966)
• Der junge Lord (1964, première 1965)
• Der junge Törless (1966; film score)
• Moralities (1967, premiere 1968; revised 1970)
• Das Floß der Medusa (1968, oratorio)
• El Cimarrón (1970–1971, musical work)
• Der langwierige Weg in die Wohnung der Natascha Ungeheuer (1971)
• La Cubana, oder Ein Leben für die Kunst (1973, première 1974; chamber version La piccola Cubana 1990-91)
• We Come to the River (1974–76, première 1976)
• The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum (1975; film score)
• (1978; film score)
• The Woman (1978; withdrawn)
• Orpheus (1978; Viennese version 1986)
• Pollicino (1979–80, première 1980)
• Montezuma (1980; a film score)
• The English Cat (1980–83, première 1983; revised 1990)
• Nach Lissabon (1982)
• Un amour de Swann (1983; film score)
• L'amour à mort (1984)
• Das verratene Meer (1986–89, Deutsche Oper Berlin, 5 May 1990)
• Gogo No Eiko (1990, première of the first version in German, Deutsche Oper Berlin, 2006, première of the second version in Japanese, Salzburger Festspiele)
• Venus und Adonis (1993–95, Bavarian State Opera, Munich, 11 January 1997)
• L'Upupa und der Triumph der Sohnesliebe (2000–03, Salzburg Festival, 12 August 2003)
• Phaedra (Berlin State Opera, 6 September 2007)
• (Ruhrtriennale, September 2010)

Ballets

• Ballet-Variationen (1949, first staged 1958; revised 1992)
• Jack Pudding (1949, premiere 1950; withdrawn)
• Das Vokaltuch der Kammersängerin Rosa Silber (1950, first staged 1958; revised 1990)
• Le Tombeau d'Orphée (1950, withdrawn)
• Labyrinth (1951, premiere 1952; revised 1996)
• Der Idiot (1952, premiere 1952; revised 1990)
• Pas d’action (1952; withdrawn)
• Maratona (1956, premiere 1957)
• Undine (1956-7, premiere 1958)
• L’usignolo dell’imperatore (1959, premiere 1959)
• Tancredi (1964, premiere 1966)
• Orpheus (1978, premiere 1979)
• Le disperazioni del Signor Pulcinella, libretto by Sergio Sivori, (1992-5, premiere 1997; this ballet is an extended and revised version of Jack Pudding)
• Le fils de l'air (1995-6, premiere 1997)

Orchestral

• Symphonies
  • Symphony no. 1 (1947; revised 1963, 1991, and 2005—the last version renamed Kammerkonzert 05)
  • Symphony no. 2 (1949)
  • Symphony no. 3 (1949–50)
  • Symphony no. 4 (1955)
  • Symphony no. 5 (1962)
  • Symphony no. 6 (1969; revised 1994)
  • Symphony no. 7 (1983–84)
  • Symphony no. 8 (1992–93)
  • Symphony no. 9 (1995–97)
  • Symphony no. 10 (1997–2000)
• Kammerkonzert (1946)
• Suite (1949)
• Sinfonische Variationen (1950; withdrawn)
• Sinfonische Zwischenspiele (1951)
• Tancredi (1952)
• Tanz und Salonmusik (1952; revised 1989)
• Vokalsinfonie (1955; this is taken from König Hirsch)
• Quattro poemi (1955)
• Sinfonische Etüden (1956; revised as Drei sinfonische Etüden in 1964)
• Maratona (1956)
• Jeux des Tritons (1956–57; revised 1967)
• Hochzeitsmusik (1957)
• Sonata per archi (1957–58)
• Drei Dithyramben (1958)
• Trois pas des Triton (1958)
• Undine, Suite no. 1 (1958)
• Undine, Suite no. 2 (1958)
• Antifone (1960)
• Los caprichos (1963)
• Zwischenspiele (1964)
• Mänadentanz (1965)
• In memoriam: die weisse Rose (1965)
• Fantasia for Strings (1966)
• Telemanniana (1967)
• Compases para preguntas ensimismadas (1969–70)
• Heliogabalus imperator, allegoria per musica (1971–72; revised 1986)
• Tristan (1972–3)
• Ragtimes and Habaneras (1975)
• Aria de la folía española (1977)
• Il Vitalino raddoppiato (1977)
• Apollo trionfante (1979)
• Arien des Orpheus (1979)
• Barcarola (1979)
• Dramatische Szenen aus ‘Orpheus’ I (1979)
• Spielmusiken (1979–80)
• Deutschlandsberger Mohrentanz no. 1 (1984)
• Kleine Elegien (1984–85)
• Deutschlandsberger Mohrentanz no. 2 (1985)
• Fandango (1986 with Daniel Barenboim; revised 1992)
• Cinque piccoli concerti e ritornelli (1987)
• La selva incantata, aria and rondo (1991)
• Introduktion, Thema und Variationen (1992)
• Appassionatamente (1993–4)
• Seconda sonata per archi (1995)
• Voie lactée ô soeur lumineuse for chamber orchestra (1996)
• Erlkönig, fantasia (1996)
• Pulcinellas Erzählungen (1996)
• Sieben Boleros (1996)
• Zigeunerweisen und Sarabanden (1996)
• Fraternité, air (1999)
• A Tempest, rounds (2000)
• Scorribanda Sinfonica (2000–01)
• L’heure bleue (2001)
• Sebastian im Traum (2004)
• Fünf Botschaften für die Königin von Saba (2004)

Concertante

• Piano
  • Piano Concertino (1947)
  • Piano Concerto No. 1 (1950)
  • Piano Concerto No. 2 (1967)
• Violin
  • Violin Concerto No. 1 (1947)
  • Violin Concerto No. 2 (1971; revised 1991)
  • Violin Concerto No. 3 Three Portraits from Doktor Faustus (1996)
• Ode an den Westwind for cello and orchestra (1953)
• Double Bass Concerto (1966)
• Double Concerto for oboe, harp and strings (1966)
• Englische Liebeslieder for cello and orchestra (1984–85)
• Requiem: 9 geistliche Konzerte for piano, trumpet and chamber orchestra (1990–93)
• Drei geistliche Konzerte, for trumpet and orchestra (1992)

Choral

• Fünf Madrigäle (1947)
• Chor gefangener Trojer (1948; revised 1964)
• Wiegenlied der Mutter Gottes (1948)
• Jüdische Chronik (1960)
• Novae de infinito laudes (1962)
• Cantata della fiaba estrema (1963)
• Lieder von einer Insel (1964)
• Muzen Siziliens (1966)
• Das Floß der Medusa (1968; revised 1990)
• Mad People's Madrigal (1974–6)
• Orpheus Behind the Wire (1981–3)
• Hirtenlieder (1993–5)
• Elogium Musicum (2008, in memory of Henze's partner Fausto Moroni)
• Der Opfergang (2010)
• An den Wind (2011)

Vocal

• Sechs Lieder (1945; withdrawn)
• Whispers from Heavenly Death (1948; revised 1999)
• Der Vorwurf (1948; withdrawn)
• Apollo et Hyazinthus (1948–9)
• Chanson Pflastersteine (1950; withdrawn)
• Fünf neapolitanische Lieder (1956)
• Nachtstücke und Arien (1957)
• Kammermusik 1958 (1958; revised 1963)
• Drei Fragmente nach Hölderlin (1958)
• Three Arias (1960; revised 1993)
• Ariosi (1963)
• Being Beauteous (1963)
• Ein Landarzt (1964)
• Versuch über Schweine (1968)
• El Cimarrón (1969–70)
• Voices (1973)
• Heb doch die Stimme an (1975)
• Kindermund (1975)
• El rey de Harlem (1979)
• Three Auden Songs (1983)
• Drei Lieder über den Schnee (1989)
• An Sascha (1991)
• Zwei Konzertarien (1991)
• Lieder und Tänze (1992–3)
• Heilige Nacht (1993)
• Heimlich zur Nacht (1994)
• Nocturnal Serenade (1996)
• Sechs Gesänge aus dem Arabischen (1997–8)

Chamber

• String Quartets
  • String Quartet No. 1 (1947)
  • String Quartet No. 2 (1952)
  • String Quartet No. 3 (1975–76)
  • String Quartet No. 4 (1976)
  • String Quartet No. 5 (1976)
• Kammersonate, for piano trio (1948; revised 1963)
• Wind Quintet (1952)
• L'usignolo dell'imperatore for 9 players (1959)
• Quattro fantasie for octet (1963)
• Der junge Törless for string sextet (1966)
• Fragmente aus einer Show for brass quintet (1971)
• Carillon, Récitatif, Masque for mandolin, guitar and harp (1974)
• Amicizia!, quintet for clarinet, trombone, cello, percussion and piano (1976)
• L'autunno for wind quintet (1977)
• Trauer-Ode für Margaret Geddes, for six cellos (1977)
• Le miracle de la rose (Imaginäres Theater II), for clarinet and 13 musicians (1981)
• Canzona for oboe, piano, harp, 3 violas and cello (1982)
• Sonata for 8 Brass Instruments, for piccolo trumpet, 2 trumpets, flugelhorn, bass trumpet, 2 trombones, and bass trombone (1983)
• Sonata for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, percussion, and piano [from film score ''L'amour à mort''] (1984)
• Selbst- und Zwiegespräche, trio for viola, guitar and small organ (1984–85)
• Ode an eine Äolsharfe, for guitar and 15 instruments (1985–86)
• Allegra e Boris for violin and viola (1987)
• Paraphrasen über Dostojewsky, for speaker and 11 instruments (1990)
• Piano Quintet (1990–91)
• Adagio, adagio, for piano trio (1993)
• Notturno for ten winds, piano and double bass (1995)
• Leçons de danse for piano, harp (or 2 pianos) and percussion (1996)
• Minotauros Blues, for six percussionists (1996)
• Neue Volkslieder und Hirtengesänge, for bassoon, guitar and string trio (1996)
• Ein kleines Potpourri, for flute, vibraphone, harp, and piano (2000) [from the opera ''Boulevard Solitude'']

Instrumental

• Violin Sonata (1946)
• Flute Sonatina (1947)
• Serenade, for cello (1949)
• Drei Tentos, for guitar (1958; from Kammermusik)
• Memorias de ‘El Cimarrón’, for guitar (1970)
• Prison Song, for percussion and tape (1971)
• Sonatina for Solo Trumpet (1974)
• Royal Winter Music, Sonata No. 1, for guitar (1975 - 6)
• Capriccio, for cello (1976; revised 1981)
• Sonata, for violin (1976–7; revised 1992)
• S. Biagio 9 agosto ore 12.07, for double bass (1977)
• Five Scenes from the Snow Country, for marimba (1978)
• Viola Sonata (1978–79)
• Violin Sonatina (1979) [from the opera ''Pollicino'']
• Epitaph, for cello (1979)
• Etude philarmonique, for violin (1979)
• Royal Winter Music, Sonata No. 2, for guitar (1979)
• Drei Märchenbilder, for guitar (1980; from Pollicino)
• Serenade, for violin (1986)
• Für Manfred, for violin (1989)
• Fünf Nachtstücke for violin and piano (1990)
• An Brenton, for viola (1993)

Keyboard

• Variationen, for piano (1949)
• Piano Sonata (1959)
• Six Absences, for harpsichord (1961)
• Lucy Escott Variations, for harpsichord or piano (1963)
• Divertimenti, for 2 pianos (1964)
• Margareten-Walzer, for piano (1978)
• Toccata senza fuga, for organ (1979; from Orpheus)
• Sechs Stücke für junge Pianisten, for piano (1980; from Orpheus)
• Cherubino, 3 miniatures for piano (1980 - 81)
• Euridice, for harpsichord (1981; revised 1992; from Pollicino)
• Une petite phrase, for piano (1984; from the film score for Un amour de Swann)
• La mano sinistra, for piano left hand (1988)
• Piece for Peter, for piano (1988)
• Clavierstück, for piano (1989)
• Das Haus Ibach, for piano (1991)
• Pulcinella disperato, fantasia, arrangement for piano (1991 - 2; from Le disperazioni del Signor Pulcinella))
• Für Reinhold, for piano (1994)
• Toccata mistica, for piano (1994)
• Serenata notturna, for piano (1996; arrangement of Notturno)
• Olly on the Shore, for piano (2001)
• Scorribanda pianistica, for piano (2003)

Arrangements

• Die schlafende Prinzessin (1951; withdrawn)
• Don Chisciotte (1976)
• Jephte (orat, orch of Carissimi) (1976)
• Wesendonck-Lieder (1976)
• Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria (1981)
• I sentimenti di Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1982)
• Der Mann, der vom Tode auferstand (1988)
• Fürwahr ...?! (1988)
• Drei Mozartsche Orgelsonaten (1991)
• Il re Teodoro in Venezia (1991–2)
• Drei Orchesterstücke (1995)
• Richard Wagnersche Klavierlieder (1998–9)

References

• Palmer-Füchsel, Virginia. 2001. "Henze, Hans Werner". The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, ed. S. Sadie and J. Tyrrell. London: Macmillan.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Hans Werner Henze . . 1 July 1926 . 14 August 2024.