Sunday, October 28, 2012

Hans Werner Henze

Composer -- via the Guardian. The innovative and prolific Henze was an oxymoron: a successful avant-garde figure. His absurd and horrifying youth (he was gay, and his father was a Nazi) was far more dramatic than any of his many creations in opera, symphonic and chamber music, ballets, and much more.








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