Hans Werner Henze was a German composer who grew up during the time period of the Hitler Youth and went on to become a communist, leaving Germany because of his political views and its intolerance toward homosexuality. His music is influenced by serialism, atonality, jazz, and Arabic music, as well as standard compositional practices.

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Recordings featured in this episode, performed by Toni Marie Palmertree, soprano, Zachary Dean Smith, tenor, and Ellen Rissinger, pianist:

• I. Aggio saputo cala morte vene (Fünf Neapolitanische Lieder)
• V. Arbero piccerillo (Fünf Neapolitanische Lieder)
• 2. Rimbaud (Three Auden Songs)
• 3. Lay your sleeping head, my love (Three Auden Songs)

Recorded at Morningstar Studios in Norristown, PA.

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