Henze

American  

[hen-tsuh] / ˈhɛn tsə /

noun

1. Hans Werner 1926–2012, German composer.

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Henze British  

/ ˈhɛntsə /

noun

1. Hans Werner (hans ˈvɛrnər). 1926–2012, German composer, whose works, in many styles, include the operas The Stag King (1956), The Bassarids (1965), The English Cat (1983), and Das verratene Meer (1990) and the oratorio The Raft of the Medusa (1968)

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“We need to encourage new small businesses to set up shop downtown and make it easier, not harder, to stay in business,” spokesperson Jillian Henze said by email.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 30, 2023

Ambitious attempts in mid-1950s London — notably “Prince of the Pagodas” and “Undine,” with exceptional scores by Benjamin Britten and Hans Werner Henze, respectively — “didn’t,” as the British press sniffed, “quite come off.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 1, 2023

Kevin Henze, a white therapist in Boston, described a similar situation in which a white college student examined how a pattern of discounting his Black girlfriend’s accounts of racial distress was a form of racism.

From Slate ● Jun. 9, 2022

But some of those crisp takes can sound as though they’re still trying to redeem Henze for Boulez’s starker ears.

From New York Times ● Feb. 24, 2022

The statue, modeled by Robert Henze, is to be cast in bronze.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 514, November 7, 1885 by Various