Beethoven finished nine symphonies and left the sketchiest torso of a 10th -- and ever since, there has been a silly superstition built around the number nine for composers. The German composer Hans Werner Henze, who turns 75 this year, has now safely survived the completion of his 10th Symphony, which will be premiered next year in Switzerland. His productivity remains high, even as his style -- a personal kind of impressionism with bursts of atonal expressionist frenzy -- grows more and more remote from the sounds favored by younger composers.

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