Paul Hindemith
German composer (1895–1963)
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GermanyHe wrote a symphony about a painter, championed the viola when it was still the orchestra's punchline, and built a harmonic system that used all twelve notes without abandoning tonality — then watched the Nazis label his music "degenerate" and fled.
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Paul Hindemith founded the Amar Quartet in 1921 and spent the decade touring Europe as both violist and composer, becoming a leading voice of Neue Sachlichkeit — the unsentimental, neo-Baroque clarity that defined German modernism between the wars. His Kammermusik series and song cycle Das Marienleben (1923) put the viola and viola d'amore at center stage in a Bach-inflected language that used all twelve chromatic tones within a tonal frame. By the mid-1930s the Nazi regime had turned hostile; he responded with Mathis der Maler, an opera about a painter caught between art and politics, then ex…
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- Kurt Weill: String Quartet / Schulhoff: Quartet No. 1 / Hindemith: Quartet No. 31995
- The Glenn Gould Edition: Hindemith: Das Marienleben / Krenek & Strauss: Lieder1995
- Mathis der Maler - Symphonie / Symphonische Metamorphosen / Nobilissima Visione1995
- Die Serenaden op. 35 / Heckelphone Trio / Oboe Sonata / English Horn Sonata1995
- The Chamber Concertos / Kammermusiken 1-71995
- Violin Concerto: Konzert für Violine und Blasorchester1995
- Clarinet Chamber Music1995
- String Quartets No. 1, No. 2, No. 61995
- Complete Violin Sonatas (The)1995
- Mathis der Maler / Symphonic Metamorphosis / Nobilissima visione1995
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- Pantheon 2.0High confidencedatabase · pantheon.world
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