Tenor, guitar and 8
solo-instruments (Klar. *
Fg. - Hr. - Git. - Str.
(1 * 1 * 1 * 1 * 1 [auch
chorisch ad lib.]))
SKU: HL.49015144
Uber die Hymne In
lieblicher Blaue von
Friedrich Holderlin.
Composed by Hans Werner
Henze. Sheet music.
Edition Schott.
Classical. Piano
reduction. Composed
1958/1963. 48 pages.
Duration 40'. Schott
Music #ED 4897. Published
by Schott Music
(HL.49015144).
ISBN
9790001056359.
7.5x10.75x0.177 inches.
German.
A number of
sketches for this work
were made in Greece in
the summer of 1958. When
the work was finished, I
dedicated it to Benjamin
Britten. In 1963, on the
occasion of the 60th
birthday of my old friend
Josef Rufer, I added an
epilogue in which I
recapture the mood of the
whole work and introduce
a sort of quotation from
Schonberg's Chamber
Symphony No. 1, as a
greeting to Rufer who
devoted his whole life to
the Viennese master.-
Hans Werner Henze.