Paul Hindemith

Paul Hindemith ( POWL HIN-də-mit; German: [ˌpaʊ̯l ˈhɪndəmɪt] ; 16 November 1895 – 28 December 1963) was a German and American composer, music theorist, teacher, violist, and conductor. He founded the Amar Quartet in 1921, touring extensively in Europe. As a composer, he became a major advocate of the Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity) style of music in the 1920s, with compositions such as Kammermusik, including works with viola and viola d'amore as solo instruments in a neo-Bachian spirit. His other notable compositions include the song cycle Das Marienleben (1923), the oratorio Das Unaufhörliche (1931), Der Schwanendreher for viola and orchestra (1935), the opera Mathis der Maler (1938), and the symphony Mathis der Maler (1934), the Symphonic Metamorphosis of Themes by Carl Maria von Weber (1943), and the oratorio When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd (1946), a requiem based on Walt Whitman's poem. Hindemith and his wife emigrated to Switzerland and the United States ahead of World War II, after worsening difficulties with the Nazi German regime. In his later years, he conducted and recorded much of his own music. Most of Hindemith's compositions are anchored by a foundational tone, and use musical forms and counterpoint and cadences typical of the Baroque and Classical traditions. His harmonic language is more modern, freely using all 12 notes of the chromatic scale within his tonal framework, as detailed in his three-volume treatise, The Craft of Musical Composition.

Hindemith: Cardillac, Op. 39 - 2026-02-06T00:00:00.000000Z

Hindemith: Cardillac, Op. 39 - 2026-02-06T00:00:00.000000Z

L'atelier des pianistes - J'apprends le piano - 2025-11-21T00:00:00.000000Z

The Pianists' Workshop - 2025-09-22T00:00:00.000000Z

Hindemith: Sonates pour alto solo - 2025-09-19T00:00:00.000000Z

Monteverdi: L'Orfeo, SV 318 - 2025-09-19T00:00:00.000000Z

Hindemith: Ludus Tonalis - 2025-09-12T00:00:00.000000Z

The Sparkling Pianist - 2025-08-19T00:00:00.000000Z

Hindemith: Der Schwanendreher - 2025-07-28T00:00:00.000000Z

The Centenary Album - 2025-07-08T00:00:00.000000Z

L'atelier des pianistes (The Pianists' Workshop) - 2025-04-01T00:00:00.000000Z

Paul Hindemith: Konzertmusik für Blasorchester Opus 41 - 2025-03-04T00:00:00.000000Z

Aufbruch des 20. Jahrhunderts im Lied - 2025-02-17T00:00:00.000000Z

Hindemith: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra - 2025-01-25T00:00:00.000000Z

Hindemith: Symphony in B-Flat - 2024-12-17T00:00:00.000000Z

Hindemith: "Symphonia Serena" - 2024-11-22T00:00:00.000000Z

Hindemith: Piano Sonatas Nos. 1-3 - 2024-11-16T00:00:00.000000Z

Hindemith: Piano Sonatas Nos. 1-3 - 2024-11-16T00:00:00.000000Z

Paul Hindemith: Piano Works - 2024-10-10T00:00:00.000000Z

Hindemith: Mathis der Maler & The Four Temperaments - Schnittke: Piano Concerto - 2024-06-14T00:00:00.000000Z

Nobiltà (Remastered 2015) - 2024-05-17T00:00:00.000000Z

Hindemith: Complete Works for Flute - 2024-05-03T00:00:00.000000Z

Hindemith: Complete Works for Flute - 2024-05-03T00:00:00.000000Z

Hindemith: Viola Sonatas - 2024-04-26T00:00:00.000000Z

Hindemith: Viola Sonatas - 2024-04-26T00:00:00.000000Z

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