Hans Werner Henze (Hans Werner Henze) |

Hans-Werner Henze

German composer. Born July 1, 1926 in Gütersloh. He studied in Heidelberg with W. Fortner and in Paris with R. Leibovitz.

He is the author of more than 10 operas, including The Theater of Miracles (1949), Boulevard of Solitude (1952), The Stag King (1956), The Prince of Hamburg (1960), Elegy for Young Lovers ( 1961), “Young Lord” (1965), “Bassarids” (1966), “Alpine Cat” (1983) and others; symphonic, chamber and vocal compositions, as well as ballets: Jack Pudding (1951), The Idiot (based on the novel by F. Dostoevsky, 1952), The Sleeping Princess (on themes from Tchaikovsky’s ballet The Sleeping Beauty, 1954) , “Tancred” (1954), “Dance Marathon” (1957), “Ondine” (1958), “Rose Zilber” (1958), “The Nightingale of the Emperor” (1959), “Tristan” (1974), “Orpheus” ( 1979).

Ballets to the music of Henze’s Second and Fifth Symphonies were also staged.