La Cubana or A Life for the Arts (La Cubana oder Ein Leben für die Kunst)

Television opera (vaudeville) in five scenes by Hans Magnus Enzensberger

after themes from the novel “Canción de Rachel” by Miguel Barnet

Scene of action: Havana
Time of action: 1906–1934
Background story: 1959

Commissioned…

La Cubana or A Life for the Arts (La Cubana oder Ein Leben für die Kunst)

Dance Classes (Leçons de danse)

From the ballet “The Son of the Air”

For two pianos (or piano and harp) and percussions

Year of composition 1996
Duration 4 minutes

Tango
Tempo di Minuetto
Foxtrott
Finale

Dance Classes (Leçons de danse)

Dance- and Drawing Room Music (Tanz- und Salonmusik)

from the mime drama “The Idiot”

Year of composition 1952
Revision 1989
Duration 18 minutes

Dance- and Drawing Room Music (Tanz- und Salonmusik)

Dancing classes (Tanzstunden)

A trilogy

Le Disperazioni del Signor Pulcinella
Le fils de l'air
Labyrinth

Year of composition 1996
Duration 110 minutes

Dancing classes (Tanzstunden)

1st Deutschlandsberg Moresca

(1. Deutschlandsberger Mohrentanz)

For four recorders, guitar, percussion, string quartet and string orchestra

Year of composition 1984
Duration 5 minutes

1st Deutschlandsberg Moresca

2nd Deutschlandsberg Moresca

(2. Deutschlandsberger Mohrentanz)

For four recorders, guitar, percussion, string quartet and string orchestra

Year of composition 1985
Duration 4 minutes

2nd Deutschlandsberg Moresca

Divertimenti

For two pianos

Year of composition 1964
Duration 12 minutes

I Allegro
II Con spirito
III
Largo
IV Vivace

Interludes from the opera “The Young…

Divertimenti

Divertimento

for oboe, viola and violoncello

Year of composition 1945
Duration 14 minutes

Divertimento

Don Chisciotte della Mancia

Comic opera by Giovanni Battista Lorenzi and Giovanni Paisiello (1769)

Newly recounted by Giuseppe Di Leva and Hans Werner Henze, with the collaboration of Henning Brauel
(English by Rodney Blumer)

Year of composition 197…

Don Chisciotte della Mancia

Double Concerto (Doppio concerto)

For oboe, harp and strings
Commissioned by Paul Sacher

Year of composition 1966
Duration 30 minutes

Dedicated to Paul and Maja Sacher

Double Concerto (Doppio concerto)

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