German composer Hans Werner Henze dies age 86

The death of German composer Hans Werner Henze has been announced today.Schott Music said that Henze, 86, died on Saturday in Dresden; the cause of death has not been disclosed, but Henze's health has been frail since suffering from a serious illness in his late 70s that left him incapacitated for two months in 2005.Henze's work over the decades straddled musical genres. He composed stage works, symphonies, concertos, chamber works and a requiem. He once said that "many things wander from the co...

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