Paul Hindemith
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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 and in the 1930s he made several visits to Ankara where he led the task of reorganizing Turkish music education. Towards the end of the 1930s, he made several tours of America as a viola and viola d’amore soloist.
Despite protests from the conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler, his music was condemned as “degenerate” by the Nazis, and in 1940 he emigrated to the USA. At the same time that he was codifying his musical language, his teaching began to be affected by his theories. At this time he taught primarily at Yale University where he had such notable pupils as Lukas Foss, Norman Dello Joio, Harold Shapero, and Ruth Schonthal.
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fastlane01
he looks more like a gentle giant to me
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progtrance7
he did it to me. good times.
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Cruddybluds
Aside from the good music, I love how he always looks like he's about to slap someone.
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Metal_tne_best
это какакша из китая пуакет как овца
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elnimio
dat counterpoint
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insomniacme
remains quite unimpressive imo
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Diothalamus
this man was great at everything! from his piano pieces to his string quartets and chamber music, just everything blows me away
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elnimio
the string quartets are sickkk
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shinobi001
I don't think it's absurd to compare the Hindemith viola sonatas to Bach's cello work.
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insomniacme
eh.
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matt15_bsas
Adoro su libro'' Adiestramiento elemental para musicos'' , una explicacion directa y profesional :)
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KraeheK
The solo viola sonatas have an oddly consoling and richly emotional feel - it feels absurd to make the comparison, but it gives me a similar feel to Bach's violin and cello solo music.
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danwe
funny, the flute sonata is actually Kraftwerk's "tour de france"....
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mrweithy
Yo... when me an ma bros get togeather and break out the blunts n 40s, i slap on some hindemith an pump up da bass!!! YA HURD??????
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sodiumneck
the 'pataphysics group exists
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carol_s
Trauermusik is one of the greatest, saddest, most beautiful, most original viola pieces ever. amazing.
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flute4me
I played his Sonata for Flute and Piano, and I've loved his music ever since :)
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Funkyshoe
I recently performed his cello and viola duet, very difficult piece, but a great one.
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larrybob
Check out the 1922 Suite for piano op 26 particularly the last movement Ragtime.
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Amina172
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