Bohemian Fifths: An Autobiography

by Hans Werner Henze

Hans Werner Henze is one of the world's leading composers. His autobiography is frank, impassioned, and alive with memorable images and characters and graphic accounts of the creative process and performances of his music.

Henze's unhappy childhood during the onset of Fascism found release in music, which, in spite of the disruption of the war, became the center of his life. He studied composition but began to make a career as a ballet conductor,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691607095
• ISBN13: 9780691607092
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 532 Pages