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.

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 * Der tolle Tag (1951; withdrawn)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 * Die Zikaden (1955; withdrawn)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 * Les caprices de Marianne (1962; withdrawn)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 (1978 film) (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 * The Woman (1978; withdrawn)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)

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)
 * 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 for cello and orchestra (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)
 * 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)
 * Englische Liebeslieder for cello and orchestra (1984–85)
 * Deutschlandsberger Mohrentanz no. 2 (1985)
 * Fandango (1986 with Daniel Barenboim; revised 1992)
 * Cinque piccoli concerti e ritornelli (1987)
 * Requiem: 9 geistliche Konzerte (1990–93)
 * La selva incantata, aria and rondo (1991)
 * Introduktion, Thema und Variationen (1992)
 * Appassionatamente, fantasia (1993–4)
 * Seconda sonata per archi (1995)
 * 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)
 * Sebastian im Traum (2004)
 * Fünf Botschaften für die Königin von Saba (2004)

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)

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 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)
 * Sonatina, for flute and piano (1947)
 * 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, for brass quintet (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), for clarinet and 13 musicians (1981)
 * Variation, for brass quintet (1981)
 * Von Krebs zu Krebs (1981)
 * Canzona (1982)
 * Sonata, 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 (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]

Solo instrumental

 * Sonatina for piano (1947; withdrawn)
 * Serenade, for cello (1949)
 * Variationen, for piano (1949)
 * Drei Tentos, for guitar (1958; from Kammermusik)
 * Piano Sonata (1959)
 * Six Absences, for harpsichord (1961)
 * Lucy Escott Variations, for harpsichord or piano (1963)
 * Memorias de ‘El Cimarrón’, for guitar (1970)
 * Sonatina for 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)
 * Ländler, for violin (1977; withdrawn)
 * S. Biagio 9 agosto ore 12.07, for double bass (1977)
 * Five Scenes from the Snow Country, for marimba (1978)
 * Margareten-Walzer, for piano (1978)
 * Epitaph, for cello (1979)
 * Etude philarmonique, for violin (1979)
 * Royal Winter Music, Sonata No. 2, for guitar (1979)
 * Toccata senza fuga, for organ (1979; from Orpheus)
 * Drei Märchenbilder, for guitar (1980; from Pollicino)
 * 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)
 * Serenade, for violin (1986)
 * La mano sinistra, for piano left hand (1988)
 * Piece for Peter, for piano (1988)
 * Clavierstück, for piano (1989)
 * Für Manfred, for violin (1989)
 * Das Haus Ibach, for piano (1991)
 * Pulcinella disperato, fantasia, arrangement for piano (1991–2; from Le disperazioni del Signor Pulcinella))
 * Minette, arrangements for descant zither and for guitar (1992; from The English Cat)
 * An Brenton, for viola (1993)
 * 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)