List of works by Hans Werner Henze

This is a list of works by German composer Hans Werner Henze (1926 -).

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*"Der tolle Tag" (1951; withdrawn)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*"Die Zikaden" (1955; withdrawn)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*"Les caprices de Marianne" (1962; withdrawn)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)
*"El Cimarrón" (1970–1971, musical work)
*"Der langwierige Weg in die Wohnung der Natascha Ungeheuer" (1971)
*"Das Floß der Medusa" (1971, oratorio)
*"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)
*"Die verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum" (1975; film score)
*"Der Taugenichts" (1977)
*"The Woman" (1978; withdrawn)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, première 1990)
*"Venus und Adonis" (1993-95, première 1997)
*"L'Upupa und der Triumph der Sohnesliebe" (2000-03, première 2003)
*"Phaedra" (premièred at the Berlin State Opera, 6 September 2007)

ymphonies

*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)
*"Vokalsinfonie" (1955; this is taken from "König Hirsch")
*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)

Other works for large forces

*"Kammerkonzert" (1946)
*Concertino (1947)
*Violin Concerto no. 1 (1947)
*Suite (1949)
*Piano Concerto no. 1 (1950)
*"Sinfonische Variationen" (1950; withdrawn)
*"Sinfonische Zwischenspiele" (1951)
*"Tancredi" (1952)
*"Tanz und Salonmusik" (1952; revised 1989)
*"Ode an den Westwind" (1953)
*"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)
*"Double Bass Concerto" (1966)
*"Double Concerto" (1966)
*Fantasia, for strings (1966)
*Piano Concerto no. 2 (1967)
*"Telemanniana" (1967)
*"Compases para preguntas ensimismadas" (1969–70)
*Violin Concerto no. 2 (1971; revised 1991)
*"Heliogabalus imperator, allegoria per musica" (1971–72; revised 1986)
*"Tristan" (1972–3)
*"Katharina Blum" (1975; a film score)
*"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)
*"Liebeslieder" (1984–85)
*"Deutschlandsberger Mohrentanz no. 2" (1985)
*"Fandango" (1985; revised 1992)
*"Cinque piccoli concerti e ritornelli" (1987)
*"" (1990–93)
*"La selva incantata, aria and rondo" (1991)
*"Introduktion, Thema und Variationen" (1992)
*"Appassionatamente, fantasia" (1993–4)
*"Erlkönig, fantasia" (1996)
*"Pulcinellas Erzählungen" (1996)
*"Sieben Boleros" (1996)
*Violin Concerto no. 3, "Three Portraits from T. Mann's Doktor Faustus" (1996)
*"Zigeunerweisen und Sarabanden" (1996)
*"Fraternité, air" (1999)
*"A Tempest, rounds" (2000)
*"Scorribanda Sinfonica" (2000–01)
*"L’heure bleue" (2001)

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" (1992-5, premiere 1997; this ballet is an extended and revised version of "Jack Pudding")
*"Le fils de l'air" (1995-6, premiere 1997)

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)

Vocal solo

*"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

*"Kleines Quartett", for oboe, violin, viola, and cello (1945; withdrawn)
*Sonata, for violin and piano (1946)
*String Quartet no. 1 (1947)
*"Kammersonate" (1948; revised 1963)
*String Quartet no. 2 (1952)
*Wind Quintet (1952)
*"Concerto per il Marigny" (1956; withdrawn)
*"Quattro fantasie" (1963)
*"Divertimenti" (1964)
*"Der junge Törless" (1966)
*"L'usignolo dell'imperatore" (1970)
*"Fragmente aus einer Show" (1971)
*"Prison Song" (1971)
*"Carillon, Récitatif, Masque" (1974)
*String Quartet no. 3 (1975–76)
*"Amicizia!" (1976)
*String Quartet no. 4 (1976)
*String Quartet no. 5 (1976)
*"Konzertstück" (1977–85)
*"L'autunno" (1977)
*"Trauer-Ode für Margaret Geddes" (1977)
*Sonata, for viola and piano (1978–79)
*Sonatina, for violin and piano (1979) [from the opera "Pollicino"]
*"Le miracle de la rose (Imaginäres Theater II)" (1981)
*Variation, for brass quintet (1981)
*"Von Krebs zu Krebs" (1981)
*"Canzona" (1982)
*Sonata, for piccolo trumpet, 2 trumpets, fluegel horn, 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" (1984–85)
*"Ode an eine Äolsharfe" (1985–86)
*"Eine kleine Hausmusik" (1986)
*"Allegra e Boris" (1987)
*"Fünf Nachtstücke" (1990)
*"Paraphrasen über Dostojewsky" (1990)
*Piano Quintet (1990–91)
*Adagio, for string sextet (1992)
*"Adagio, Serenade" (1993)
*"Drei geistliche Konzerte" (1994–6)
*"Notturno" (1995)
*"Leçons de danse" (1996)
*"Minotauros Blues" (1996)
*"Neue Volkslieder und Hirtengesänge" (1996)
*"Voie lactée ô soeur lumineuse" (1996)
*"Drei Märchenbilder", for 2 guitars (1997) [arr. J. Ruck from opera "Pollicino"]
*"Ein kleines Potpourri", for flute, vibraphone, harp, and piano (2000) [from the opera "Boulevard Solitude"]

olo instrumental

*Sonatina, for piano (1947; withdrawn)
*Serenade, for solo cello (1949)
*"Variationen" (1949)
*"Drei Tentos" (1958)
*Sonata, for piano (1959)
*"Six Absences" (1961)
*"Lucy Escott Variations" (1963)
*"Memorias de ‘El Cimarrón’" (1970)
*Sonatina, for trumpet (1974)
*"Royal Winter Music, sonata no.1" (1975–6)
*"Capriccio" (1976; revised 1981)
*Sonata, for violin (1976–7; revised 1992)
*"Ländler" (1977; withdrawn)
*"S. Biagio 9 agosto ore 12.07" (1977)
*"Five Scenes from the Snow Country" (1978)
*"Margareten-Walzer" (1978)
*"Epitaph" (1979)
*"Etude philarmonique" (1979)
*"Royal Winter Music", Sonata no. 2 (1979)
*"Toccata senza fuga" (1979)
*"Drei Märchenbilder" (1980)
*"Sechs Stücke für junge Pianisten" (1980)
*"Cherubino" (1980–81)
*"Euridice" (1981; revised 1992)
*"Une petite phrase" (1984)
*"Serenade" for solo violin (1986)
*"La mano sinistra" (1988)
*"Piece for Peter" (1988)
*"Clavierstück" (1989)
*"Für Manfred" (1989)
*"Das Haus Ibach" (1991)
*"Pulcinella disperato, fantasia" (1991–2)
*"Minette" (1992)
*"An Brenton" (1993)
*"Für Reinhold" (1994)
*"Toccata mistica" (1994)
*"Serenata notturna" (1996)
*"Olly on the Shore" (2001)

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)