We are shocked and saddened by the death of the co-founder and long-standing Chairman of the Board of the Hans Werner Henze Foundation.

The Hans Werner Henze Foundation mourns the loss of business graduate Michael Wagner (1957-2024), member of the Board of the Hans Werner Henze Foundation from 2023-2024.

The website of the Hans Werner Henze Foundation was launched in September 2013 and, after years of work, is now experiencing a major update with a completely revised design and many new, previously unpublished articles, information about Hans Werner Henze and the Foundation's work, as well as an extensive picture gallery.

Hans Werner Henze would have been 100 years old on 1. July 2026. This momentous occasion prompts a re-examination of the enormous oevre that the composer left behind and which is now part of the core repertoire of music theatre and concert life.

This recording was made during a series of concerts in November 2022 in the Mozarteum Orchestra's Orchestra House. The oldest piece by Henze, Konzertmusik (concert music) from the war winter of 1943/44, is a premiere recording.

Studienarbeit
Technische Universität Dortmund
Fachbereich Musik

GRIN-Verlag, München 2024, 36 S.

Ingeborg Bachmann wrote "Die Zikaden" in 1955, when she was just 29 years old. It was her first radio play for the NWDR in Hamburg. The music was composed by Hans Werner Henze.

Dedication by Rainer Pöllmann on the 10th anniversary of Hans Werner Henze's death on 27 October 2022 on Deutschlandfunk Kultur (in german)

Michael Struck-Schloen in conversation with Prof. Dr. Antje Tumat, Foundation council of the Hans Werner Henze Foundation