Paul Hindemith aged 28.

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Biography

Born in Hanau, Germany, Hindemith was taught the violin as a child. He entered the Hochsche Konservatorium in Frankfurt am Main where he studied conducting, composition and violin under Arnold Mendelssohn and Bernhard Sekles, supporting himself by playing in dance bands and musical-comedy outfits. He led the Frankfurt Opera orchestra from 1915 to 1923 and played in the Rebner string quartet from 1914 in which he played second violin, and later the viola. In 1921 he founded the Amar Quartet,^[1] playing viola, and extensively toured Europe. , Hanau is a town in the Main-Kinzig-Kreis, in Hesse, Germany. ... For the Anne Rice novel, see Violin (novel). ... Dr. Hoch’s Konservatorium - Musikakademie in Frankfurt am Main was founded September 22, 1878. ... Frankfurt am Main [ˈfraŋkfʊrt] is the largest city in the German state of Hessen and the fifth largest city of Germany. ... A conductor conducting at a ceremony A conductors score and batons Conducting is the act of directing a musical performance by way of visible gestures. ... Bernhard Sekles (* June 20, 1872 in Frankfurt am Main; † December 15, 1934) was a German composer and music teacher. ... For other uses, see Opera (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Orchestra (disambiguation). ... The resident string quartet of the Library of Congress in 1963 A string quartet is a musical ensemble of four string instruments—usually two violins, a viola and cello—or a piece written to be performed by such a group. ... For other uses, see Viola (disambiguation). ...

In 1922, some of his pieces were heard in the International Society for Contemporary Music festival at Salzburg, which first brought him to the attention of an international audience. The following year, he began to work as an organizer of the Donaueschingen Festival, where he programmed works by several avant garde composers, including Anton Webern and Arnold Schoenberg. From 1927 he taught composition at the Berliner Hochschule für Musik in Berlin. In the 1930s he made a visit to Cairo and several visits to Ankara where (at the invitation of Atatürk) he led the task of reorganizing Turkish music education and the early efforts for the establishment of Turkish State Opera and Ballet. Towards the end of the 1930s, he made several tours in America as a viola and viola d'amore soloist. The International Society for Contemporary Music (ISCM) is a music organization that promotes contemporary classical music. ... This page is for the city of Salzburg. ... For other uses, see Avant-garde (disambiguation). ... Anton Webern (December 3, 1883 – September 15, 1945) was an Austrian composer and conductor. ... Arnold Schoenberg, Los Angeles, 1948 Arnold Schoenberg (pronounced [ˈaːrnÉ”lt ˈʃøːnbÉ›rk]) (13 September 1874 – 13 July 1951) was an Austrian and later American composer, associated with the expressionist movement in German poetry and art, and leader of the Second Viennese School. ... The Berlin University of the Arts (Universität der Künste Berlin) in Berlin, Germany, was founded in 1975 with the merger of the Berlin State School of Fine Arts and the Berlin State School of Music and the Performing Arts. ... This article is about the capital of Germany. ... For other uses, see Cairo (disambiguation). ... Ankara is the capital of Turkey and the countrys second largest city after Ä°stanbul. ... Mustafa Kemal Atatürk Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1881–November 10, 1938), Turkish army officer, revolutionary, and anti-imperialist statesman, was the founder and first President of the Republic of Turkey. ... Ankara Opera House (Opera Sahnesi) is the first among three opera and ballet venues in Ankara The State Opera and Ballet (Turkish: Devlet Opera ve Balesi) is the national directorate of opera and ballet companies of Turkey, with venues in Ankara, Ä°stanbul, Ä°zmir, Mersin, and Antalya. ... Viola dAmore from the mid eighteenth century (Library of Congress collection) The viola damore (Italian: love viol) is a 7- or 6-stringed musical instrument with sympathetic strings used chiefly in the baroque period. ...

Hindemith's relationship to the Nazis is a complicated one: some condemned his music as "degenerate" (largely on the basis of his early, sexually charged operas such as Sancta Susanna), and on December 6 1934, during a speech at the Berlin Sports Palace, Germany’s Minister of Propaganda, Joseph Goebbels publicly denounced Hindemith as an “atonal noisemaker.” Others, though, thought that he might provide Germany with an example of a modern German composer, who by this time was writing music based in tonality, and with frequent references to folk music; the conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler's defence of Hindemith, published in 1934, takes precisely this line. The controversy around his work continued throughout the thirties, with the composer falling in and out of favour with the Nazi hierarchy; he finally emigrated to Switzerland in 1938 (partly as his wife was Jewish), and in the meantime had sworn an oath to Hitler, had accepted a commission to write music for a Luftwaffe event (although it never materialised), conducted for official Nazi concerts, and accepted a position on the Reich Music Chamber. This part of Hindemith's life has until recently been downplayed by historians of the composer (such as Skelton or Kemp), who have mostly tried to assert his anti-Nazi beliefs. Nazism in history Nazi ideology Nazism and race Outside Germany Related subjects Lists Politics Portal         Nazism or National Socialism (German: Nationalsozialismus), refers primarily to the ideology and practices of the Nazi Party (National Socialist German Workers Party, German: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or NSDAP) under Adolf Hitler. ... Sancta Susanna is an early opera by Paul Hindemith in one act, with a German libretto by August Stramm. ... The Berliner Sportpalast (built 1910, demolished 1973) was a multi-purpose winter sport venue and meeting hall in the Schöneberg section of Berlin. ... Paul Joseph Goebbels (German pronunciation: IPA: ; English generally IPA: ) (October 29, 1897 – May 1, 1945) was a German politician and Minister for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda during the National Socialist regime from 1933 to 1945. ... Wilhelm Furtwängler (January 25, 1886 – November 30, 1954) was a German conductor and composer. ...

In 1935, Hindemith was commissioned by the Turkish government to reorganize that country's musical education, and, more specifically, was given the task of preparing material for the “Universal and Turkish Polyphonic Music Education Programme” for all music-related institutions in Turkey, a feat which he accomplished to universal acclaim. This development seems to have been supported by the Nazi regime: it may have got him conveniently out of the way, yet at the same time he propagated a German view of musical history and education. (Hindemith himself said he believed he was being an ambassador for German culture.) Hindemith did not stay in Turkey as long as many other émigrés. Nevertheless, he greatly influenced the developments of Turkish musical life; the Ankara State Conservatory owes much to his efforts. In fact, Hindemith was regarded to be a “real master” by young Turkish musicians and he was appreciated and greatly respected.[2]

In 1940 Hindemith emigrated to the United States. At the same time that he was codifying his musical language, his teaching and compositions began to be affected by his theories, according to critics like Ernest Ansermet (1961, note to p. 42 added on an errata slip). Once in the States he taught primarily at Yale University where he had such notable pupils as Lukas Foss, Norman Dello Joio, Mel Powell, Harold Shapero, Hans Otte, Ruth Schonthal, and Oscar-winning film director George Roy Hill. During this time he also gave the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures at Harvard, from which the book A Composer's World was extracted (Hindemith 1952). He became an American citizen in 1946, but returned to Europe in 1953, living in Zürich and teaching at the university there. Towards the end of his life he began to conduct more, and made numerous recordings, mostly of his own music. He was awarded the Balzan Prize in 1962. Ernest Alexandre Ansermet (November 11, 1883 – February 20, 1969) was a Swiss conductor. ... Yale redirects here. ... Lukas Foss (born Lukas Fuchs, August 15, 1922 in Berlin, Germany) is an American composer and conductor. ... Norman Dello Joio (born January 24, 1913) is an American composer. ... Mel Powell (born Melvin Epstein, February 12, 1923 in New York City - April 24, 1998 in Valencia, California) was a jazz pianist and serial composer. ... Harold Samuel Shapero (born 29 April 1920) is an American composer. ... Hans Otte (b. ... Ruth Schonthal (1924 - July 10, 2006) was a musical composer and classical pianist, known for her improvisational skill and her ability to meld diverse elements in her compositions. ... George Roy Hill (December 20, 1921 – December 27, 2002) was an Academy Award winning American film director. ... Lectures held at Harvard University by distinguished academics. ... Harvard University is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, and a member of the Ivy League. ... For other uses of Zurich, see Zurich (disambiguation). ... The International Balzan Prize Foundation awards four annual monetary prizes to people or organisations who have made outstanding achievements in the fields of humanities, natural sciences, culture, as well as for endeavours for peace and the brotherhood of man. ...

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Hindemith's music

Hindemith is among the most significant German composers of his time. His early works are in a late romantic idiom, and he later produced expressionist works, rather in the style of early Arnold Schoenberg, before developing a leaner, contrapuntally complex style in the 1920s. It has been described as neoclassical,^{[citation needed]} but is very different from the works by Igor Stravinsky labeled with that term, owing more to the contrapuntal language of Bach than the Classical clarity of Mozart. The expression romantic music and the homophone phrase Romantic music have two essentially different meanings. ... On White II by Wassily Kandinsky, 1923. ... Arnold Schoenberg, Los Angeles, 1948 Arnold Schoenberg (pronounced [ˈaːrnɔlt ˈʃøːnbɛrk]) (13 September 1874 – 13 July 1951) was an Austrian and later American composer, associated with the expressionist movement in German poetry and art, and leader of the Second Viennese School. ... For other uses, see Counterpoint (disambiguation). ... Late Baroque classicizing: G. P. Pannini assembles the canon of Roman ruins and Roman sculpture into one vast imaginary gallery (1756) Neoclassicism (sometimes rendered as Neo-Classicism or Neo-classicism) is the name given to quite distinct movements in the decorative and visual arts, literature, theatre, music, and architecture that... Igor Stravinsky. ... For other uses, see Counterpoint (disambiguation). ... “Bach” redirects here. ... “Mozart” redirects here. ...

This new style can be heard in the series of works he wrote called Kammermusik (Chamber Music) from 1922 to 1927. Each of these pieces is written for a different small instrumental ensemble, many of them very unusual. Kammermusik No. 6, for example, is a concerto for the viola d'amore, an instrument which had not been in wide use since the baroque period, but which Hindemith himself played. He continued to write for unusual groups throughout his life, producing a sonata for double bass in 1949, for example. The term Concerto (plural concertos or concerti) usually refers to a musical work in which one solo instrument is accompanied by an orchestra. ... Viola dAmore from the mid eighteenth century (Library of Congress collection) The viola damore (Italian: love viol) is a 7- or 6-stringed musical instrument with sympathetic strings used chiefly in the baroque period. ... Baroque music describes an era and a set of styles of European classical music which were in widespread use between approximately 1600 and 1750. ... Sonata (From Latin and Italian sonare, to sound), in music, literally means a piece played as opposed to cantata (Latin cantare, to sing), a piece sung. ... Side and front views of a modern double bass with a French bow. ...

Around the 1930s, Hindemith began to write less for chamber groups, and more for large orchestral forces. In 1933-35, Hindemith wrote his opera Mathis der Maler, based on the life of the painter Matthias Grünewald. It is respected in musical circles, but like most twentieth-century operas it is rarely staged, though a well-known production by the New York City Opera in 1995 was an exception (Holland 1995). It combines the neo-classicism of earlier works with folk song. Hindemith turned some of the music from this opera into a purely instrumental symphony (also called Mathis der Maler), which is one of his most frequently performed works. Chamber music is a form of classical music, written for a small group of instruments which traditionally could be accommodated in a palace chamber. ... For other uses, see Orchestra (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Opera (disambiguation). ... Mathis der Maler (Matthias the Painter) is an opera by Paul Hindemith. ... Painting by Rembrandt self-portrait Detail from Las Meninas by Diego Velazquez, in which the painter portrayed himself at work For the computer graphics program, see Corel Painter. ... The Crucifixion, central panel of the Isenheim Altarpiece Matthias Grünewald (1470-1528) is a highly regarded figure from the German Renaissance. ... The New York State Theater at Lincoln Center, seen from Lincoln Center Plaza New York State Theater The New York State Theater at Lincoln Center, interior, as seen from the stage The New York City Opera (NYCO) is based in Philip Johnsons New York State Theater at Lincoln Center. ... Folk song redirects here. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... The symphony Mathis der Maler (Matthias the Painter) by Paul Hindemith is an orchestral work based upon themes from Hindemiths opera Mathis der Maler, about the painter Matthias Grünewald. ...

Hindemith, like Kurt Weill and Ernst Krenek, wrote Gebrauchsmusik (Utility Music), music intended to have a social or political purpose and often intended to be played by amateurs. The concept was inspired by Bertolt Brecht. An example of this is his Trauermusik (Funeral Music), written in 1936. Hindemith was preparing a concert for the BBC when he heard news of the death of George V. He quickly wrote this piece for solo viola and string orchestra to mark the event, and the premiere was given on the same day. Hindemith later disowned the term Gebrauchsmusik, saying it was misleading.^{[citation needed]} Kurt Julian Weill (March 2, 1900 – April 3, 1950), born in Dessau, Germany and died in New York City, was a German and in his later years, a German-American composer active from the 1920s until his death. ... Ernst Krenek (August 23, 1900 – December 22, 1991) was an Austrian born (and from 1945 an American) composer of Czech ancestry; throughout his life he insisted that his name be written Krenek rather than Křenek, and that it should be pronounced as a German word. ... {{dy justified his choice of form, and from about 1929 on he began to interpret its penchant for contradictions, much as had Eisenstein, in terms of the dialectic. ... For other uses, see BBC (disambiguation). ... George V (George Frederick Ernest Albert; 3 June 1865 – 20 January 1936) was the first British monarch belonging to the House of Windsor, which he created from the British branch of the German House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. ...

Hindemith's most popular work, both on record and in the concert hall, is probably the Symphonic Metamorphoses of Themes by Carl Maria von Weber, written in 1943. It takes melodies from various works by Weber, mainly piano duets, but also one from the overture to his incidental music for Turandot (Op. 37/J. 75), and transforms and adapts them so that each movement of the piece is based on one theme. Composed by Paul Hindemith in 1943. ... Look up melody in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Carl Maria von Weber Carl Maria Friedrich Ernst, Freiherr von Weber (November 18, 1786 in Eutin, Holstein – June 5, 1826 in London, England) was a German composer, conductor, pianist and critic, one of the first significant composers of the Romantic school. ... Incidental music is music in a play, television program, radio program or some other form not primarily musical. ... Carlo Gozzi wrote Turandot (1762) for the Commedia dellarte. ...

In 1951, Hindemith completed his Symphony in B-flat. Scored for concert band, it was written for the U.S. Army Band "Pershing's Own". Hindemith premiered it with that band on April 5th of that year [3]. Its second performance took place under the baton of Hugh McMillan, conducting the Boulder Symphonic Band at the University of Colorado. The piece is representative of his late works, exhibiting strong contrapuntal lines throughout, and is a cornerstone of the band repertoire. A concert band, also called wind band, symphonic band, symphonic winds, wind orchestra, wind symphony, or wind ensemble, is a performing ensemble consisting of several members of the woodwind instrument family, brass instrument family and percussion instrument family. ...

Hindemith's musical system

Most of Hindemith's music uses a unique system that is tonal but non-diatonic; it is centered around a tonic, and modulates from one tonal center to another like most tonal music, but uses all 12 notes freely rather than relying on a scale picked as a subset of these notes. Hindemith even rewrote some of his music after developing this system. One of the key features of his system is that he ranks all musical intervals of the 12-tone equally tempered scale from the most consonant to the most dissonant. He classifies chords in six categories, on the basis of how dissonant they are, whether or not they contain a tritone, and whether or not they clearly suggest a root or tonal center. Hindemith's philosophy also encompasses melody--Hindemith strives for melodies that do not clearly outline major or minor triads. In Music theory, the diatonic major scale (also known as the Guido scale), from the Greek diatonikos or to stretch out, is a fundamental building block of the European-influenced musical tradition. ... In music theory, the term interval describes the difference in pitch between two notes. ... In music, a consonance (Latin consonare, sounding together) is a harmony, chord, or interval considered stable, as opposed to a dissonance, which is considered unstable. ... In music, a consonance (Latin consonare, sounding together) is a harmony, chord, or interval considered stable, as opposed to a dissonance, which is considered unstable. ...

In the late 1930s, Hindemith wrote a theoretical book The Craft of Musical Composition (Hindemith 1937–70), which lays out this system in great detail. It laid out Hindemith's compositional technique he had been using throughout the 1930s and would continue to use for the rest of his life.^{[citation needed]} Hindemith also advocated for his system as a means of understanding and analyzing the harmonic structure of other music, claiming that it has a broader reach than the traditional roman numeral approach to chords (an approach that is strongly tied to the diatonic scales). In the same book, Hindemith uses his system to analyze his own music alongside music of J.S. Bach, and even that of Arnold Schoenberg.

His piano work of the early 1940s, Ludus Tonalis is seen by many as a further example or exploration of this system.^{[citation needed]} It contains twelve fugues, in the manner of Johann Sebastian Bach, each connected by an interlude during which the music moves from the key of the last fugue to the key of the next one. The order of the keys follows Hindemith's ranking of musical intervals around the tonal center of C. Ludus Tonalis (Game of the Notes or The Tonal Game) is a collection of piano works by Paul Hindemith. ... In music, a fugue (IPA: ) is a type of contrapuntal composition or technique of composition for a fixed number of parts, normally referred to as voices, irrespective of whether the work is vocal or instrumental. ... “Bach” redirects here. ... An interlude (between play) is: Look up Interlude in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... For other uses, see key. ...

One traditional aspect of classical music that Hindemith retains is the idea of dissonance resolving to consonance. Much of Hindemith's music begins in consonant territory, progresses rather smoothly into dissonance, and resolves at the end in full, consonant chords. This is especially apparent in his "Concert Music for Strings and Brass."

Hindemithon

A yearly festival of Hindemith's music, Hindemithon, is held at William Paterson University in Wayne, New Jersey. William Paterson University is a public university located in Wayne, New Jersey, an affluent suburb of New York City. ...

Works

See this page for a complete list.

Operas

• Mörder, Hoffnung der Frauen (Murder, Hope of Women) (1919)
• Das Nusch-Nuschi (1920)
• Sancta Susanna (1921)
• Neues vom Tage (News of Today) (1928-29; revised 1953-54)
• Mathis der Maler (Mathis the Painter) (1934-1935)
• Cardillac (1926; revised versions 1952/1961)
• Die Harmonie der Welt (The Harmony of the World) (1956-57)
• The Long Christmas Dinner (1960-61)

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Ballets

• Triadisches Ballett, with Oskar Schlemmer (1923)
• Nobilissima Visione, with Léonide Massine (1938)
• The Four Temperaments (scored for piano and strings) (1940)

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Orchestral

• Concerto for Orchestra, Op. 38 (1925)
• Concert Music for String and Brass Instruments, Op. 50 (1930)
• Philharmonic Concerto (Variations for Orchestra) (1932)
• Mathis der Maler Symphony (1933-1934)
• Symphony In E flat (1940)
• Symphonic Metamorphoses on Themes of Weber (1943)
• Symphony Serena (1946)
• Symphonietta (Little Symphony) in E-major (1949)
• Die Harmonie der Welt Symphony (1951)
• Symphony in B flat for concert band (1951)
• Fünf Stücke für Streichorchester (Five Pieces for String Orchestra) (1927)

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Concertante

• Concertmusik, for piano, brass instruments and two harps op.49 (1930)
• Piano Concerto (1945)
• Violin Concerto
• Flute Concerto
• Der Schwanendreher for Viola and Small Orchestra (1935)
• Kammermusik No. 5 for Viola and Orchestra, Op. 36 No. 4 (1927)
• Konzertmusik for Viola and Large Chamber Orchestra, Op. 48 (1930)
• Trauermusik for Viola and String Orchestra (1936)
• Cello Concerto
• Trumpet Concerto
• Clarinet Concerto
• Horn Concerto
• Organ Concerto
• Concerto for Trumpet and Bassoon

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Vocal

• When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd (Requiem for those we love), for chorus and orchestra, based on the poem by Walt Whitman (1946)
• Das Marienleben, song cycle for soprano and piano, based on poems by Rainer Maria Rilke, which exists in two versions. (There is also an orchestration by the composer of six of the songs from the cycle, for soprano and orchestra.)
• Six Chansons, 6 pieces for a cappella choir, settings of French poetry by Rainer Maria Rilke (1939)

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Chamber

• String Quartet No. 1 in C, Op. 2
• String Quartet No. 2 in F minor, Op. 10
• String Quartet No. 3 in C, Op. 16
• String Quartet No. 4, Op. 22
• String Quartet No. 5, Op. 32
• String Quartet No. 6 in E-flat
• String Quartet No. 7 in E-flat
• String Trio No. 1, Op. 35 (1924)
• String Trio No. 2 (1933)
• Woodwind Quintet No. 1
• Wind Septet for flute, oboe, clarinet, bass-clarinet, bassoon, horn and trumpet (1948)
• Octet, for clarinet, bassoon, horn, violin, 2 violas, cello, and double bass (1958)
• Eight Pieces for 2 Violins, Viola, Cello and Double-Bass (1927)

Instrumental

• Violin
  • Violin Sonata in E-flat op. 11 No. 1 (1918)
  • Violin Sonata in D op. 11 No. 2 (1918)
  • Violin Sonata in E (1935)
  • Violin Sonata in C
  • Sonata for Solo Violin op. 31 No. 1 (1924)
  • Sonata for Solo Violin op. 31 No. 2 (1924)
• Viola
  • Viola Sonata in F, Op. 11 No. 4 (1919)
  • Viola Sonata, Op. 25 No. 4 (1922)
  • Viola Sonata (1939)
  • Sonata for Solo Viola, Op. 11 No. 5 (1919)
  • Sonata for Solo Viola, Op. 25 No. 1 (1922)
  • Sonata for Solo Viola, Op. 31 No. 4 (1923)
  • Sonata for Solo Viola (1937)
• Kleine Sonate for Viola d'amore and Piano, Op. 25 No. 2 (1922)
• Cello
  • Cello Sonata op. 11 No. 3 (1919)
  • Cello Sonata (1948)
  • Solo Sonata for Cello op. 25 No. 3 (1923)
  • Drei Leichte Stücke für Violoncello und Klavier (1938)
• Double Bass Sonata (1949)

• Flute Sonata (1936)
• Eight Pieces for Solo Flute (1927)
• Oboe Sonata (1938)
• English Horn Sonata (1941)
• Clarinet Sonata (1939)
• Bassoon Sonata (1938)

• Trumpet Sonata (1939)
• Horn Sonata (1939)
• Sonata for Four Horns (1952)
• Alto Horn (also for french horn or alto saxophone) Sonata (1943)
• Trombone Sonata (1941)
• Tuba Sonata (1955)

• Harp Sonata (1939)

Piano

• Piano Sonata No. 1 (1936)
• Piano Sonata No. 2 (1936)
• Piano Sonata No. 3 (1936)
• Piano Sonata (4 Hands) (1938)
• Sonata for Two Pianos (4 Hands) (1942)
• Ludus Tonalis

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Organ

• Organ Sonata No. 1 (1937)
• Organ Sonata No. 2 (1937)
• Organ Sonata No. 3 (on ancient folk songs)(1940)

Notable students

• Samuel Adler
• Violet Archer
• Irwin Bazelon
• Charles L. Bestor
• Easley Blackwood Jr.
• Norman Dello Joio
• Emma Lou Diemer
• Alvin Etler
• Harald Genzmer
• Bernhard Heiden
• Andrew Hill
• Ulysses Kay
• Mitch Leigh
• Walter Leigh
• Willson Osborne
• William P. Perry
• Mel Powell
• Oskar Sala
• Harold Shapero
• Joseph Tal
• Francis Thorne

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See also

• Category:Compositions by Paul Hindemith

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Notes

1. ^ The Amar Quartet was founded for the Donaueschingen Festival of 1921 and was disbanded in 1929. See an account by Tully Potter, [1], and entry under Chamber-Music Players in Eaglefield-Hull 1924, 86.

External links

• Hindemith Foundation
• Schott Musik Publisher page
• Paul Hindemith was listed in the International Music Score Library Project
• Art of the States: Paul Hindemith
• An Inner Emigration, notes on Hindemith and Der Schwanendreher by Ron Drummond

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