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Hans Werner Henze
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Hans Werner Henze was a German composer, musicologist, jazz musician, and university teacher. Born in Gütersloh in 1926, he studied at Heidelberg University and worked at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln. His compositions spanned opera, symphony, vocal music, and classical music within the 20th-century classical music movement. He played the piano and recorded for Deutsche Grammophon. Notable works include *Der Prinz von Homburg* and *Boulevard Solitude*.
Henze received the Praemium Imperiale, the Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art, the Knight of the Legion of Honour, and the Ernst von Siemens Music Prize. He was a member of the Academy of Arts of the GDR, the Academy of Arts in Berlin, the German Academy for Language and Literature, and the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts. He died in Dresden in 2012 and was buried in Lazio.
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Film & TV
Gütersloh, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Known for
- Das Profil — Self1962
- Hans Werner Henze: Memoirs of an Outsider — Himself
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Germany
- Active from
- 1926
- Active to
- 2012
Discography
- Szenen aus »Elegie für junge Liebende«1964
- Musen Siziliens / Moralitäten1968
- Swann in Love1984
- Kammermusik 1958 über die Hymne "In lieblicher Bläue" von Hölderlin für Tenor, Gitarre und acht Soloinstrumente1988
- Symphonies nos. 1-61990
- Compases / Violin Concerto No. 2 / Apollo et Hyazinthus1991
- The Bassarids1991
- Symphonie Nr. 7 / Barcarola per grande orchestra1993
- Voices1993
- Requiem1994
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 17,811
- Total plays
- 136,989
Tags
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. <a href="https://www.last
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Hans
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Germany
- Place of birth
- Gütersloh
- Place of death
- Dresden
- Occupation
- music educator
- Educated at
- Heidelberg University
- Political party
- Nazi Party
- Languages spoken
- German
- Student of
- Wolfgang Fortner
- Genre
- classical music
- Movement
- 20th-century classical music
- Instrument
- piano
- Record label
- Deutsche Grammophon
- Image
- Bundesarchiv B 145 Bild-F008277-0008, Köln, Schloss Brühl, Meisterkurse Musik.jpg
- Work location
- Marino
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- Commons category
- Hans Werner Henze
- date of birth
- 1926-07-01
- date of death
- 2012-10-27
- member of
- Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts
- name in native language
- Hans Werner Henze
- birth name
- Hans Werner Henze
- place of burial
- Lazio
- student
- Jörg Widmann
- related category
- Category:Compositions by Hans Werner Henze
- P12674
- Hermann von der Hude
Sources (7)
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Works in European collections
3 objects attributed to Hans Werner Henze, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
