the Operatic Saxophone

Henze, Hans Werner

Ballet: Maratona

Composed: 1956

Librettist: Visconti di Modrone, Don Luchino

Text: Horace McCoy

Saxophone:Alto Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone

Publisher: Schott Music

Premiere: 1957

Nationality: German

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Opera: Der Prinz von Homburg

Composed: 1958-59

Librettist: Ingeborg Bachmann

Text: Heinrich von Kleist

Saxophone: Alto Saxophone

Publisher: Schott Music

Premiere: 1960

Language: German

Nationality: German

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Opera: Elegy for Young Lovers (Elegie für junge Liebende)

Composed: 1959-61

Librettist: Wystan Hugh Auden and Chester Kallman

Saxophone: Alto Saxophone

Publisher: Schott Music

Premiere: 1961

Language: English/German

Nationality: German

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Opera: The Judgement of Calliope (Das Urteil der Kalliope)

Composed: 1964, rev. 1991

Librettist: Wystan Hugh Auden and Chester Kallman

Text: Euripides

Saxophone: Alto Saxophone

Publisher: Schott Music

Premiere: 1997

Language: English/German

Nationaltiy: German

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Music Drama: The Bassarids

Composed: 1964-65

Librettist: Wystan Hugh Auden and Chester Kallman

Text: Euripides

Saxophone: Alto Saxophone, Alto/Tenor Saxophone

Publisher: Schott Music

Premiere:1966

Language: English/German

Nationality: German

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Opera: Der langwierige Weg in die Wohnung der Natascha Ungeheur (Show mit 17)

Composed: 1971

Text: Gastón Salvatore

Saxophone

Publisher: Schott Music

Premiere: 1971

Language: German/English

Nationality:German

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Opera: La Cubana oder Ein Leben für die Kunst (Vaudeville in five scenes)

Composed: 1974

Librettist: Hans Magnus Enzensberger

Text: Miguel Barnet

Saxophone: Alto Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone

Publisher: Schott Music

Premiere:1974

Language: German

Nationality: German

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Opera: Don Chisciotte della Mancia, composed with Giovanni Paisiello (Komische Oper)

Composed: 1976

Librettist: Henze, Giovanni Battista Lorenzi, and Guiseppe Di Leva

Saxophone: Soprano Saxophone, Alto Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone

Publisher: Schott Music

Premiere: 1976

Language: English, German, Italian, Swedish

Nationality: German

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Ballet: Orpheus

Composed: 1978

Librettist: Edward Bond

Saxophone: Soprano/Alto/Tenor/Baritone Saxophone

Publisher: Schott Music

Premiere: 1979

Nationality: German

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Opera: Das verrantene Meer (Musikdrama)

Composed: 1986-89

Librettist: Hans-Ulrich Treichel

Text: Yukio Mishima

Saxophone: Soprano Saxophone

Publisher: Schott Music

Premiere: 1990

Language: German

Nationality: German

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Opera: Gogo no Eiko

Composed: 1989

Librettist: Hans-Ulrich Treichel

Text: Yukio Mishima

Saxophone: Soprano Saxophone

Publisher: Schott Music

Premiere: 2003

Language: German/Japanese

Nationality: German

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Opera: Venus und Adonis

Composed: 1993-95

Librettist: Hans-Ulrich Treichel

Saxophone: Alto/Soprano Saxophone

Publisher: Schott Music

Premiere: 1997

Language: German

Nationality: German

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Opera: Phaedra

Composed: 2007

Librettist: Christian Lehnert

Saxophone: Alto Saxophone

Publisher: Chester Music

Premiere: 2007

Language: German

Nationality: German