Hans Werner Henze

Composer of our Time

Un Amour de Swann

(Swann in love)

Soundtrack for the movie by Volker Schloendorff after the novel by Marcel Proust (screenplay by Peter Brook)

Composition realized by collaboration of students of Henze’s Cologne composition class: David Paul Graham, Gerd Kühr and Marcel Wengler

Year of composition 1983

 

World premiere

World premiere 23. February 1984

France

Comments

The film score is based on the instrumental II. movement Compianto (Klage) of the piece Ariosi on poems by Torquato Tasso for soprano, violin and orchestra (1963)

Peter Petersen

see also

Publications
List of Works

Hans Werner Henze und Volker Schlöndorff

Porträt einer Zusammenarbeit
Janosch Korell
essays about Hans Werner Henze
Hans Werner Henze und Volker Schlöndorff

A Little Phrase (Une petite phrase)

from the film “Un amour de Swann”
Chamber music Keyboards
A Little Phrase (Une petite phrase)

Ariosi

For soprano, violin and orchestra
Vocal pieces
Ariosi

12 Variations pour sextuor à cordes et harpe autour de la petite phrase de la sonate de Vinteuil

Chamber music Various instruments
12 Variations pour sextuor à cordes et harpe autour de la petite phrase de la sonate de Vinteuil

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