The opera's premiere in Berlin was highly controversial. As he said, "I am bored by the idea of employing approaches which I have already tried." Sadler's Wells Ballet visited Hamburg in 1948; this inspired Henze to write a choreographic poem, Ballett-Variationen, which he completed in 1949. Henze had to break off his studies after being conscripted into the army in 1944, towards the end of the Second World War. The first ballet he saw was Frederick Ashton's Scènes de Ballet. I see no pressing reason to play Hitler's favourite music.". Eventually, he made his home in Marino, south-east of Rome, with his partner of more than 40 years, Fausto Moroni, whose quiet fortitude helped enable Henze to weather personal crises in the early 1970s. The crucial flashpoint occurred on 9 December 1968, at the Hamburg premiere of his oratorio volgare e militare, The Raft of the Medusa. In 1945 he became an accompanist in the Bielefeld City Theatre, and continued his studies under Wolfgang Fortner at Heidelberg University in 1946. His last success was the 2003 premiere of the opera L'Upupa und der Triumph der Sohnesliebe (English: The Hoopoe and the Triumph of Filial Love) at the Salzburg Festival, with a text he wrote himself, based on a Syrian fairy tale. Elegy for Young Lovers (German: Elegie für junge Liebende) is an opera in three acts by Hans Werner Henze to an English libretto by W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman. Moroni died shortly after the completion of Phaedra. From 1962 until 1967, Henze taught masterclasses in composition at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, and in 1967 he became a visiting Professor at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire. However, the major work of his first years in Italy was the fantastical opera König Hirsch (King Stag, 1956), to a libretto by Heinz von Cramer after Carlo Gozzi's play. He was soon captured by the British and held in a prisoner-of-war camp for the remainder of the war. Most of Henze's German friends and associates deserted him, and he became a pariah in his homeland. His orchestrally brilliant Fifth Symphony, inspired by 20th-century Rome, was first performed by Leonard Bernstein's New York Philharmonic. Hans Werner Henze (1 July 1926 – 27 October 2012) was a German composer. Henze spent a year from 1969 to 1970 teaching in Cuba. Hans Werner Henze (1 July 1926 – 27 October 2012) was a German composer. Commissioned by the Berlin Philharmonic, the work derived its expressive profile from the poems and life of Friedrich Hölderlin. The textures for the cantata Kammermusik (1958, rev. Conversation Hermann Baumer and Hans Werner Henze: Generation 68. by Hermann Baumer. Universitätsverlag Rasch, Osnabrück 1998 Universitätsverlag Rasch, Osnabrück 1998 Deborah Hochgesang : Die Opern Hans Werner Henzes im Spiegel der deutschsprachigen zeitgenössischen Musikkritik bis 1966 . Henze's Quattro poemi for orchestra in 1955 made clear that he had moved far from the principles of the Darmstadt avant-garde. His own operas became more conventional once more, for example The English Cat (1983), and Das verratene Meer (1990), based on Yukio Mishima's novel Gogo no Eiko, known in English as The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea. Brief internment by the British forces introduced him to the BBC, and a wider range of music on the radio. Hans Werner Henze: Violin Concerto No. Henze adhered throughout his life to leftwing ideologies, a reaction to his youth in Nazi Germany, which left an indelible mark on his creative psyche. His orchestral Antifonie was written for Herbert von Karajan and the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, who disliked the score and delayed performing it for two years, until 1962. Arthaus Musik: 109413. He campaigned for the social democrat Willy Brandt as chancellor in the 1965 election, though with a feeling of "uselessness and impotence", and from 1967 to 1969 more successfully for the release of the composer Isang Yun, abducted and imprisoned by the South Korean authorities. Hans Werner Henze was born on July 1, 1926 in Gütersloh, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Books by Jewish and Christian authors were replaced in the Henze household by literature reflecting Nazi views; the whole family was expected to fall into line with Franz's new thinking. Henze's music has incorporated neoclassicism, jazz, the twelve-tone technique, serialism, and some rock or popular music. Hans Werner Henze in 1960. After studies with Wolfgang Fortner, he became a repetiteur and conductor, especially for ballet, from 1948 in Konstanz, on the border with Switzerland, then from 1950 at the Hesse state theatre in Wiesbaden. This page was last edited on 8 December 2020, at 21:28. He also took part in the famous Darmstadt New Music Summer School, a key vehicle for the propagation of avant-garde techniques. Many of them are published by Schott Music. As a child, he witnessed the branding of modern music, art and literature by the Nazis. His frustration and rage found expression in the deeply disturbing cantata Essay on Pigs (1968), written for the London Sinfonietta, and in a further shift to the political left. He composed his Five Neapolitan Songs for Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau soon after his arrival in Naples. The major fruits of this partnership were the operas Das Verratene Meer (The Ocean Betrayed, 1990, after Yukio Mishima, reworked later as Gogo no Eiko) and Venus and Adonis, plus the choral-and-orchestral Ninth Symphony (1997), Henze's musical summing-up, taking its text from Anna Seghers's harrowing novel of the Nazi era, The Seventh Cross. His association with the students (he even sheltered their leader, Rudi Dutschke, after an assassination attempt) was to have severe consequences for his standing in Germany. There was in addition a re-emergence of settings in German – "I can do best when I know exactly what the meaning is, without a shadow of doubt" – for the most part in collaboration with the poet Hans-Ulrich Treichel. Despite severe critical misgivings, he had succeeded in fusing a style simultaneously radical but acceptable to modern audiences. Such concerns marked much of the music in the final phase of his compositional career, as in his arrangements of Karl Philipp Emmanuel Bach – I Sentimenti (1982) – and Karl Amadeus Hartmann (1995), the chamber guitar concerto To an Aeolian Harp (1986, inspired by an Eduard Mörike poem) and the magisterial Piano Quintet (1991). Around the time that he started studying at the Braunschweig state music school, he gained a fuller idea of the extent of Nazi oppression. The score as Henze intended it was produced in something resembling its original form only in 1985. Wundertheater in Osnabruck 2005. by Hermann Baumer. Er begann seine musikalische Ausbildung an der Staatsmusikschule Braunschweig. Also resident on the island were the composer William Walton and his wife Susana, who took a great interest in the young German composer. During the 1990s he undertook a major revision of his catalogue, withdrawing or developing new versions of several older works, and completed an autobiography, Bohemian Fifths (1998). Other late compositions include Sebastian im Traum (2004) for large orchestra and the opera Phaedra (2007). 30. Or the Strange and Memorable Ways of Happiness, was premiered in 2010. Henze was born in Gütersloh, Westphalia, the eldest of six children of a teacher, and showed early interest in art and music. This is a list of works by German composer Hans Werner Henze (1926 – 2012). While Mendelssohn and Weber were important influences, the music for Ondine contains some jazz and there is much in it redolent of Stravinsky—not only Stravinsky the neo-classical composer, but also the composer of The Rite of Spring. The composer's response was largely to turn his back on Germany for 15 years. This time also signalled a strong leaning towards music involving the voice. Despite this disappointment, demand for Henze's music continued to intensify and he enjoyed collaborations with many leading artists, including the film-maker Luchino Visconti, who provided the libretto for the jazz ballet Maratona (1957), and WH Auden and Chester Kallman, librettists of the operas Elegy for Young Lovers (1961) and The Bassarids (1966). His style lost its opulence and lyricism in favour of a leaner, more angular sound, seemingly designed to be provocative. 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Henze was also known for his political convictions. Stream Henze: Scenes from "Elegy for Young Lovers" by Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin & Orchester der Deutschen Oper Berlin & Hans Werner Henze and tens of millions of other songs on all your devices with Amazon Music Unlimited.Exclusive discount for Prime members. Background. In his early years he worked with twelve-tone technique, for example in his First Symphony and First Violin Concerto of 1947. Stream Henze: Whispers from Heavenly Death; 5 Neapolitan Songs; Being Beauteous; Essay on Pigs by Berliner Philharmoniker & Richard Kraus & Instrumentalists of the Berlin Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra & The Philip Jones Brass Ensemble & English Chamber Orchestra & Hans Werner Henze and tens of millions of other songs on all your devices with Amazon Music Unlimited. 2; Il Vitalino raddoppiato: Hans Werner Henze / Parnassus Ensemble of London / Peter Sheppard Skærved: Primary Artist, Composer, Conductor : 2015 : Hans Werner Henze: Symphonies Nos. Hans Werner Henze, who has died aged 86, created an outstanding body of musical works with theatrical and literary dimensions in the opera house, the concert hall and beyond. Henze was a pupil of the noted German composer Wolfgang Fortner and of René Leibowitz, the leading French composer of 12-tone music. Although the Henze household was filled with talk of current affairs, Hans was also able to hear broadcasts of classical music (especially Mozart) and eventually his father realized that his son had a vocation as a musician. His opera König Hirsch ("The Stag King") contains lush, rich textures. German-born, but long resident in Italy, he was continental Europe's leading composer of operas in the period following the second world war, during and beyond the decades when Benjamin Britten held the equivalent position in British musical life. One of the earliest works from his exile to make its mark was the cello concerto Ode to the West Wind (1953), after Shelley's famous poem inspired by the Peterloo massacre of 1819. Hans Werner Henze's Symphony No. (Hans Werner Henze) Born in Gütersloh on 1 July 1926, Henze received his earliest musical training at the Braunschweig Staatsmusikschule. 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. On a personal level, he experienced social isolation as a homosexual in an increasingly boorish, intolerant society: on one occasion he narrowly escaped imprisonment after a dawn raid. Photograph: Norbert Millauer/dapd. Juli 1926 in Gütersloh geboren. One of his greatest successes was the premiere of the opera Die Bassariden at the Salzburg Festival. Als Kind erlebte er die Angriffe der Nationalsozialisten auf die moderne Musik, Kunst und Literatur. The music was not heard that night, as a riot ensued when first a poster of the recently killed Che Guevara, to whom the score was dedicated, and then a red flag were in turn displayed and torn down. He settled on the island of Ischia in the Gulf of Naples. Initially he suffered further disappointment, with controversial premieres of the opera König Hirsch, based on a text by Carlo Gozzi, and the ballet Maratona di danza, with a libretto by Luchino Visconti. Œuvres principales Symphonie n o 4 Symphonie n o 6 Die Bassariden modifier Hans Werner Henze (né le 1 er juillet 1926 à Gütersloh , en Allemagne, sous la « République de Weimar » et mort le 27 octobre 2012 à Dresde , en Allemagne) est un compositeur allemand . Tristan is a six-movement orchestral work by the German composer Hans Werner Henze.. 1996 Preview SONG TIME El Cimarrón, The autobiography of the runaway slave Esteban Montejo - Recital for four musicians. At the same time, Henze was beginning to experience a crisis with his music. A later sojourn in Greece provided the opportunity to complete his Hölderlin-based work Kammermusik 1958, dedicated to Benjamin Britten and premiered by the tenor Peter Pears, the guitarist Julian Bream and an eight-member chamber ensemble.[3][4].