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Violin and viola - difficult - Digital Download SKU: S9.Q11726 Duetto concertante per violino e viola. Composed by Hans Werner Henze. This edition: performance score. Downloadable, Performance score. Duration 2 minutes. Schott Music - Digital #Q11726. Published by Schott Music - Digital (S9.Q11726). The names in the title of the piece refer to Allegra Mostyn-Owen and Boris Johnson. Allegra Mostyn-Owen is the only daughter of the Italian poetess Gaia Servadio and the historian William Mostyn-Owen. Hans Werner Henze composed this Duetto concertante as a gesture of friendship towards the mother on the occasion of Allegra’s marriage to Boris Johnson in 1987. 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 chamber music works had been composed for specific occasions, chiefly to honour figures who had accompanied him on longer or shorter stretches of his journey through life. About Digital Downloads Digital Downloads are downloadable sheet music files that can be viewed directly on your computer, tablet or mobile device. Once you download your digital sheet music, you can view and print it at home, school, or anywhere you want to make music, and you don’t have to be connected to the internet. Just purchase, download and play! PLEASE NOTE: Your Digital Download will have a watermark at the bottom of each page that will include your name, purchase date and number of copies purchased. You are only authorized to print the number of copies that you have purchased. You may not digitally distribute or print more copies than purchased for use (i.e., you may not print or digitally distribute individual copies to friends or students).