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 • 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

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

From Slate • Jun. 9, 2022

And so he commissioned or played first performances of music from many of the leading composers of his time, including Malcolm Arnold, William Walton, Hans Werner Henze, Michael Tippett, Peter Maxwell Davies and Toru Takemitsu.

From Washington Post • Aug. 14, 2020

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

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