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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Example Sentences

“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

“Downtown generates half of the city’s tax revenues, and the ability to fund services across the board will only be more challenging in the absence of a robust downtown, which is why we need to take these actions,” Jillian Henze, the group’s director of communications, wrote in an email in March.

From Seattle Times

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

In his early 20s, he and a friend founded the Greenwich Music Festival, an innovative music event in Connecticut that ran between 2004 and 2012, where he directed several productions, including Hans Werner Henze’s “El Cimarrón.”

From New York Times

While in Cuba, he collaborated with the German composer Hans Werner Henze on “El Cimarrón,” a work he described as a 75-minute “recital for four musicians.”

From New York Times