Biography of the runaway slave Estéban Montejo
Text from the book by Miguel Barnet, translated and adapted for music by Hans Magnus Enzensberger
(Englis…

Commissioned by Süddeutscher Rundfunk

(French by Irène Aitoff)

Period of composition 1959-61
Revised Version 1987
Duration 150 minutes

Dedicated to…

for large mixed chorus (SATB) and orchestra
Latin text by Franco Serpa
Commissioned by Gewandhaus zu Leipzig

Period of composition 2007/08
Duration ca. 25…

freely adapted from the fairytale by Hans Christian Andersen

Commissioned by the Venice Biennale

Year of composition 1959
Revised version 1970
Duratio…

freely adapted from the fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen
Commissioned by the Venice Biennale

Year of composition 1959
Duration 17 minutes…

Reduced version of the ballet-pantomime by Henning Brauel

Year of composition 1959
Revised version 1970
Duration 6 minutes

Commissioned by the Städtische Oper Frankfurt am Main

Dedicated to Hans Peter Doll

Commissioned by the Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk Hamburg

Libretto by Wolfgang Hildesheimer

Year of composition 1953
Revised version 1993
Duration 40…

Adaption for theatre of the radio opera of the same name

English by Wesley Balk

Year of composition 1964
Duration 40 minutes

Dedicated to Ernst…

Period of composition 1984/85 (rev. 2003)
Duration 25 minutes

I Quiet, restrained
II ¼ = 72
III Agitated, intense, stormy
IV Grave, solemn
V Tango
VI Sonet…