A guide to Hans Werner Henze's music

Henze's artistic credo was that music ought to have something to say about human emotion and to contribute to contemporary societyThere is a story that Hans Werner Henze reports in his fascinating and brave autobiography Bohemian Fifths that symbolises his central place in the cultural and political conflicts of postwar music. It's about Henze's opera, Der Prinz von Homburg, a piece that had premiered in Hamburg in 1960. Henze relates that at a dinner party (at which he wasn't present), the Ital...

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