Compases para preguntas ensimismadas
Musical composition by Hans Werner Henze
Compases para preguntas ensimismadas is a musical composition for viola, strings, wind sextet and percussion by the German composer Hans Werner Henze.
It was written during 1969–70. The title is taken from lines in Spanish by the Chilean poet Gaston Salvatore, means literally metres for questions absorbed in self-contemplation.[1] The viola part is the monologue-like centre of the work, in a way parallel to Alban Berg's Violin Concerto, which according to some reviewers it appears to directly reference.[2]
It was commissioned by Paul Sacher for the Japanese viola player Hirofumi Fukai, who gave the premiere in Basel on 11 February 1971, and subsequently recorded it under the composer's direction.
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Hans Werner Henze
- Boulevard Solitude (1951)
- Ein Landarzt (1951)
- König Hirsch (1955)
- Der Prinz von Homburg (1958)
- Elegy for Young Lovers (Elegie für junge Liebende) (1961)
- The Bassarids (Die Bassariden) (1965)
- Der junge Lord (1964)
- El Cimarrón (1971)
- Der langwierige Weg in die Wohnung der Natascha Ungeheuer (1971)
- We Come to the River (1976)
- The English Cat (1983)
- Das verratene Meer (1989)
- Venus und Adonis (1995)
- L'Upupa und der Triumph der Sohnesliebe (2003)
- Phaedra (2007)
- Gisela! (2010)
- Ondine (1957)
- No. 1 (Kammerkonzert 05)
- No. 2
- No. 3
- No. 4
- No. 5
- No. 6
- No. 7
- No. 8
- No. 9
- No. 10
- Vokalsinfonie
- Muriel ou le Temps d'un retour
- Young Törless
- The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum
- Sonata per archi (1958)
- Doppio Concerto (1966)
- Fantasia for Strings (1966)
- Das Floß der Medusa (1968)
- Compases para preguntas ensimismadas (1970)
- Heliogabalus imperator (1972/86)
- Tristan (1973)
- Voices (1973)
- Royal Winter Music (1976)
- Five Scenes from the Snow Country (1978)
- Royal Winter Music (1979)
- Requiem: 9 geistliche Konzerte (1993)
- Sebastian im Traum (2004)
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