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

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

But Henze noted that therapists lack accessible clinical tools to assess race-based psychological problems.

From Slate • Jun. 9, 2022

“Simply stated, over a long period of time, in voluminous cases, 67 cases, nobody in this state for similar cases, in similar context … nobody got jail time,” Henze said.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 30, 2022

Henze, commonly programmed in Europe, is not often played in the United States, where his reputation is unsteady; he also paid for his wide aesthetic range.

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