Hans Werner Henze

Author : Hans Werner Henze,Stewart Spencer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0691006830

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Bohemian Fifths by Hans Werner Henze,Stewart Spencer Pdf

Hans Werner Henze is one of the world's leading composers. His autobiography is frank, impassioned, and alive with memorable images and characters and graphic accounts of the creative process and performances of his music. Henze's unhappy childhood during the onset of Fascism found release in music, which, in spite of the disruption of the war, became the center of his life. He studied composition but began to make a career as a ballet conductor, until his creativity found expression in music that, by the early 1950s, had begun to distance itself from the fashionable but dogmatic rules of serialism in favor of his own individualistic conception of beauty. In both the political and sexual spheres, Hans Werner Henze is an outsider whose utopian dreams of a humane communism have always had to contend with reality. In musical and cultural matters, however, he is one of the best-connected and most influential figures of the postwar era and his autobiography brims with personal stories and observations of such luminaries as Igor Stravinsky, W. H. Auden, Benjamin Britten, Ingeborg Bachmann, Luchino Visconti, and Hans Magnus Enzensberg. A true cosmopolitan, he is happiest living in Italy, where his innate lyricism has found a natural home. "Bohemian fifths" are intervals that were played by Bohemian horn players, and which, according to Baroque and Classical rules, were proscribed. Henze's writing protests the lack of freedom that such a prohibition implies, both in music and in life.

Author : Stephen Downes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351564182

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Hans Werner Henze: Tristan (1973) by Stephen Downes Pdf

Hans Werner Henze is a prolific and internationally famous composer of the post-Second World War period. He is amongst the most frequently performed and recorded composers of his generation, and has been the subject of numerous festivals in several continents. But he is also a composer of controversy. His music has stimulated a critical polemic of notable vigour. Tristan (1973), Henze's large-scale work for piano, full orchestra and electronic tape explores Henze's creative stance with regard to Wagner. The work represents a powerful contribution to the 'tradition' of Tristan-alluding twentieth-century works, those by Berg and Messiaen being amongst the best known. Tristan has been heard as a piano concerto and as a symphonic poem, and is a fine example of how a single piece can interrogate the styles, expressions, genres and aesthetics of major, often conflictual, trends in European culture. In this book, Stephen Downes begins by placing Henze's Tristan in its wider context and in the context of Henze's compositional output and writings. He considers Henze's description of the genesis of the work by examining row tables and sketches, draft and annotated parts, and a full score with corrections and conductor's annotations. This analysis of form raises issues of genre, harmony and melody, temporality, unity and intertextuality, and places the work in the formal aesthetics characteristic of romanticism, modernism and 'postmodernism'. Key concepts in the critical legacy of Tristan are discussed and the book concludes by considering Henze's later works, placing the techniques and aesthetics of Tristan in the context of the composer's subsequent developments. The book is accompanied by a CD containing the 1975 DG recording of Tristan conducted by Henze.

Author : Hans Werner Henze
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Composers
ISBN : UOM:49015000674532

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Music and Politics by Hans Werner Henze Pdf

Author : Stephen Downes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351564199

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Hans Werner Henze: Tristan (1973) by Stephen Downes Pdf

Hans Werner Henze is a prolific and internationally famous composer of the post-Second World War period. He is amongst the most frequently performed and recorded composers of his generation, and has been the subject of numerous festivals in several continents. But he is also a composer of controversy. His music has stimulated a critical polemic of notable vigour. Tristan (1973), Henze's large-scale work for piano, full orchestra and electronic tape explores Henze's creative stance with regard to Wagner. The work represents a powerful contribution to the 'tradition' of Tristan-alluding twentieth-century works, those by Berg and Messiaen being amongst the best known. Tristan has been heard as a piano concerto and as a symphonic poem, and is a fine example of how a single piece can interrogate the styles, expressions, genres and aesthetics of major, often conflictual, trends in European culture. In this book, Stephen Downes begins by placing Henze's Tristan in its wider context and in the context of Henze's compositional output and writings. He considers Henze's description of the genesis of the work by examining row tables and sketches, draft and annotated parts, and a full score with corrections and conductor's annotations. This analysis of form raises issues of genre, harmony and melody, temporality, unity and intertextuality, and places the work in the formal aesthetics characteristic of romanticism, modernism and 'postmodernism'. Key concepts in the critical legacy of Tristan are discussed and the book concludes by considering Henze's later works, placing the techniques and aesthetics of Tristan in the context of the composer's subsequent developments. The book is accompanied by a CD containing the 1975 DG recording of Tristan conducted by Henze.

Author : Stephen Downes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-19
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781107469938

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After Mahler by Stephen Downes Pdf

The music of Gustav Mahler repeatedly engages with Romantic notions of redemption. This is expressed in a range of gestures and procedures, shifting between affirmative fulfilment and pessimistic negation. In this groundbreaking study, Stephen Downes explores the relationship of this aspect of Mahler's music to the output of Benjamin Britten, Kurt Weill and Hans Werner Henze. Their initial admiration was notably dissonant with the prevailing Zeitgeist – Britten in 1930s England, Weill in 1920s Germany and Henze in 1950s Germany and Italy. Downes argues that Mahler's music struck a profound chord with them because of the powerful manner in which it raises and intensifies dystopian and utopian complexes and probes the question of fulfilment or redemption, an ambition manifest in ambiguous tonal, temporal and formal processes. Comparisons of the ways in which this topic is evoked facilitate new interpretative insights into the music of these four major composers.

Author : Bálint András Varga
Publisher : University Rochester Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781580463799

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Three Questions for Sixty-five Composers by Bálint András Varga Pdf

Do today's composers draw inspiration from life experiences? What has influenced recent composers? How essential is it for a composer to develop a personal style? This book reveals the spontaneous thoughts of some of the most famous composers from around the world about their own development as composers and their reactions to the outside world.

Author : Hans Werner Henze
Publisher : Dance Books Limited
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015061323658

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Ondine by Hans Werner Henze Pdf

In 1957 the English choreographer Frederick Ashton and the German composer Hans Werner Henze began to collaborate on a new ballet, Ondine. During the creation of the work Henze kept a diary of its progress and his thoughts on the choreography and the music. Here translated into English for the first time, the diary gives a major insight into the workings of the creators' minds during the composition of one of the twentieth century's major works of art.

Author : Guy Rickards
Publisher : Phaidon
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1995-10-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015033732879

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Hindemith, Hartman and Henze by Guy Rickards Pdf

This book presents the entwined biographies of three composers who, in this century, have dominated the mainstream development of German music.

Author : Mark Berry
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781843839682

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After Wagner by Mark Berry Pdf

Offers histories of music drama beginning with Wagner's Parsifal and then looking at works by Arnold Schoenberg, Richard Strauss, Luigi Dallapiccola, Luigi Nono and Hans Werner Henze.

Author : Stephen C. Downes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:985150339

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Hans Werner Henze: Tristan (1973) by Stephen C. Downes Pdf

Author : Wystan Hugh Auden,Chester Kallman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 808 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Drama
ISBN : STANFORD:36105003423220

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W.H. Auden and Chester Kallman by Wystan Hugh Auden,Chester Kallman Pdf

W. H. Auden called opera the "last refuge of the High Style," and considered it the one art in which the grand manner survived the ironic levelings of modernity. He began writing libretti soon after he arrived in America in 1939 and abandoned his earlier attempts to write public, political drama. Opera gave him the opportunity to rise to the high style in public, not in an attempt to elevate his own status as a poet, but in service of the heroic voice of the singers. These works present their mythical actions with a direct intensity unlike anything in even his greatest poems. In this volume of Auden and Chester Kallman's libretti, extensive historical and textual notes trace the history of the production and revision of the works and provide full texts of early scenarios, as well as abandoned and rewritten scenes. Almost all the works included here were previously published in incomplete and often inaccessible editions--or were never published at all. The book prints for the first time the full text of Paul Bunyan, Auden's first libretto, which he wrote for music by Benjamin Britten. It also includes Auden and Kallman's The Rake's Progress, written for Igor Stravinsky, and Delia, written for Stravinsky but never set to music. The book continues with Auden and Kallman's two libretti written for music by Hans Werner Henze, Elegy for Young Lovers and The Bassarids, and their adaptation of Love's Labour's Lost, composed by Nicolas Nabokov. It also contains their translation of The Magic Flute, with its scenes reordered for greater dramatic coherence and added dialogue for sharper mythical significance, and their antimasque, The Entertainment of the Senses, for music by John Gardner. The book contains two radio plays--The Dark Valley, a monologue written by Auden alone, and The Rocking Horse Winner, written with James Stern and based on a story by D. H. Lawrence. Also included are the unpublished masque that Auden wrote for Kallman's twenty-second birthday, the unpublished versions of The Dutchess of Malfi that Auden prepared with Bertolt Brecht, scenarios for a film script and a libretto that were never completed, Auden's narrative for the medieval Play of Daniel, two narratives for documentary films, and his song lyrics written for Man of La Mancha before the producer decided to use a different lyricist.

Author : Hans Werner Henze,Wystan Hugh Auden,Chester Kallman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Operas
ISBN : STANFORD:36105028703440

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Das Urteil Der Kalliope by Hans Werner Henze,Wystan Hugh Auden,Chester Kallman Pdf

Author : Alex Ross
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2007-10-16
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781429932882

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The Rest Is Noise by Alex Ross Pdf

Winner of the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism A New York Times Book Review Top Ten Book of the Year Time magazine Top Ten Nonfiction Book of 2007 Newsweek Favorite Books of 2007 A Washington Post Book World Best Book of 2007 In this sweeping and dramatic narrative, Alex Ross, music critic for The New Yorker, weaves together the histories of the twentieth century and its music, from Vienna before the First World War to Paris in the twenties; from Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia to downtown New York in the sixties and seventies up to the present. Taking readers into the labyrinth of modern style, Ross draws revelatory connections between the century's most influential composers and the wider culture. The Rest Is Noise is an astonishing history of the twentieth century as told through its music.

Author : Josiah Fisk,Jeff Nichols
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1997-01-30
Category : Music
ISBN : 1555532799

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Composers On Music by Josiah Fisk,Jeff Nichols Pdf

This volume is a greatly expanded version of the classic 1956 anthology by Sam Morgenstern. The editor has added 30 composers to the roster, mostly in the pre-Baroque and contemporary eras, and has taken advantage of recent scholarship to prune and update the entries. The result is a glimpse into the writings of 103 major composers, from Marchetto of Paduo (14th century) on the definition of musician, to the contemporary British composer Oliver Knussen on much the same topic, and Bach's famous memorandum to the Town Council of Leipzig, as well as new discoveries, such as the elegant, cryptic prose of Toru Takemitsu.

Author : Emily Richmond Pollock
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780190063733

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Opera After the Zero Hour by Emily Richmond Pollock Pdf

'Opera After the Zero Hour' argues that newly composed opera in West Germany after World War II was a site for the renegotiation of musical traditions during an era in which tradition had become politically fraught.