Hans Werner Henze

100 years Composer of Our Time

Muses of Sicily (Musen Siziliens)

Concerto for mixed chorus, two pianos, wind instruments and timpani on fragments

from the Eclogues of Vergil

Year of composition 1966
Duration 30 minutes

Dedicated to the Singakademie Berlin and their director Mathieu Lange.

I Pastorale („Quid, quae te pura solum sub nocte canentem“)
II Adagio („Alpinas a!“)
III Silenus („...simul incipit ipse“)

World premiere

World premiere 20. September 1966

Berliner Festwochen

Members of the Radio-Sinfonie-Orchester Berlin
Singakademie zu Berlin
Piano Joseph Rollino and Paul Sheftel

Conductor Mathieu Lange

Instrumentation

2 Pianoforti concertanti
2 Flauti (2° anche Ottavino)
2 Oboi
2 Clarinetti
2 Fagotti
4 Corni
2 Trombe
2 Tromboni
Timpani

Photographs

Conducting his works in Dresden in 1966

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