Biographical notes called Hans Werner Henze to his book Songs of travel with Bohemian Quintas, a passionate and fascinating journey through time in which he tells us not only episodes of life and gives us the key to a great part of his artistic production, but Which is also an impressive gallery of portraits featuring such important personalities of twentieth-century European culture and politics as Igor Stravinsky, Bertolt Brecht, WH Auden, Elsa Morante, Luchino Visconti, Ingeborg Bachmann, Jean-Pierre Ponelle, Rudi Dutsche, Peter Weiss, Heberto Padilla, Leo Brower, Herbert von Karajan, Georg Solti and a long etcetera. Written in brilliant prose and with a magnificent narrative pulse, Songs of Travel ... is the confirmation that Hans Werner Henze, besides being a great musician, is a splendid writer.