Completed from the sketches and scored by Hans Werner Henze
Libretto by Erich Bormann

Period of composition (K.A. Hartmann) 1929-30
Completed version…

Year of composition 1975
Duration 20 minutes

I The poisoned river
II The lovers
III Lament
IV Memories
V Great Fugue (rush hour)
VI Anxiety
VII The…

For mezzo soprano and small ensemble
Poem by Federico García Lorca
Commissioned by the Westdeutscher Rundfunk

Year of composition 1979
Duration 30…

(English by Maria Massey Pelikan)
Commissioned by the Städtische Oper Berlin

Period of composition 1953-56
Duration 240 minutes

Dedication:
Act I: Sir…