Hans Werner Henze Autograph: Hand signed photo. CoA

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Composer Hans Werner Henze: Portrait photo, hand-signed in 1999. The Autograph comes with a Certificate of Authenticity. Size: 4 x 6 inches, fine condition.

Hans Werner Henze (born 1926) is a German composer well known for his left-wing political convictions. He left Germany for Italy in 1953 because of a perceived intolerance towards his politics and homosexuality. He continues to live in the village of Marino in the central Italian region of Lazio.

An avowed Marxist and member of the Communist Party of Italy, Henze in his early works even has produced compositions honoring Ho Chi Minh and Che Guevara.

His later works, while arguably less controversial, continued his political and social engagement. His Requiem (1990–93) comprised nine sacred concertos for piano, trumpet and chamber orchestra.

The choral Ninth Symphony (1997), – "dedicated to the heroes and martyrs of German anti-fascism" – to a libretto by Hans-Ulrich Treichel based on motifs from the novel The Seventh Cross by Anna Seghers is a defiant rejection of Nazi barbarism, with which Henze himself lived as a child and teenager.

Henze's music has incorporated neo-classicism, jazz, the twelve-tone technique, serialism, and some rock or popular music.

Item ID: col-5845