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Article: Henze's dance of death.(On Music)(Hans Werner Hanze)
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- The New Leader
- Article date:
- November 1, 2005
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OVER THE YEARS, attitude toward Hans Werner Henze's music has fluctuated wildly. Henze and I were more or less coevals, which may have suggested a potential kinship. But during a cab ride with Pierre Boulez I remember questioning him about whom he considered the major 20th-century composers. He offered Arnold Schonberg, Alban Berg, Anton Webern, Igor Stravinsky, and Bela Bartok, period. He must have considered Debussy and a couple of others as belonging to an earlier age.
"How about Henze?" I ventured. He brushed him aside with a word or two. Since I don't care for Boulez' music, I figured I could ignore his judgment as well. I had been won over by Henze's 1956 ...
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