# List of compositions by Hans Werner Henze

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* Der tolle Tag (1951; withdrawn)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* Die Zikaden (1955; withdrawn)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* Les caprices de Marianne (1962; withdrawn)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)
* Good-for-Nothing [de] (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* The Woman (1978; withdrawn)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)
* Gisela! oder: die merk- und denkwürdigen Wege des Glücks (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)