String Quartet No 5 (5. Streichquartett)

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1943 to 2012

Commissioned by the Süddeutscher Rundfunk

Year of composition 1976
Duration 25 minutes

In memoriam Benjamin Britten

I ¼ = 72
II Breathless, wild
III ¼= Heartbeat
IV Quiet, distant
V Echoes, memories, from very far away
VI Morning song

World premiere 25. May 1977

Schwetzingen · Concord Quartet

A reminiscence of the historical concept of the String Quartet as a place of inward intensification, of maximum concentration, of contemplation. It is as if a stroy is being told wherein nightmares occur and ghosts appear, les fleur du mal, numbness, hallucinations, horror. At one point, in the fourth movement, there is an instrumental version of the mad people’s madrigal in Act II of “We come to the River”.

Hans Werner Henze

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5. Streichquartett

Tuesday

May 2016

Villa Almone (Residenz der deutschen Botschafterin · Rom · Italien

Streichquartett Nr. 5

Wednesday

May 2014

Bayerische Akademie der Schönen Künste · München · Deutschland

Streichquartette Nr. 1-5

La Biennale di Monaco - Festival Internazionale del Nuovo Teatro Musicale onora il suo fondatore Hans Werner Henze con due importanti concerti.

Meeting of Spanish intellectuals and artists with Hans Werner Henze, Madrid 2005

Nel febbraio 2005, l'Orchestra Nazionale Spagnola e il Coro Nazionale (OCNE) hanno dedicato il loro festival annuale "Carta Blanca" a Hans Werner Henze.