Hans Werner Henze’s output is primarily dominated by large-scale, representative musical genres with a richly differentiated instrumental tonal palette: opera and other forms of musical theatre works, ballet, solo concertos and cantatas and also music for large-scale orchestra or chamber ensemble. In contrast, the chamber music works which Henze has composed throughout his entire compositional career right up to the present day have always remained somewhat on the sidelines. Many of these chambe...

Cette pièce a été jouée pour la première fois le 15 juin 1993 à Zurich, lors de la cérémonie funèbre pour le violoniste et pédagogue Brenton Langbein.