It was thanks to Hindemith that Gould received his only Grammy Award – and not for his piano playing. He won for the Best Liner Notes of 1973 with an essay accompanying his recording of the three ...

Hindemith composed seven string quartets and like so much of his vast output, which took in almost every conceivable musical genre, they are rarely heard nowadays in the concert hall. The Second and ...

Hindemith wrote Klaviermusik mit Orchester in 1923 for Paul Wittgenstein, the Austrian pianist who lost his right arm during the first world war. Wittgenstein - whose other commissions included ...

When Paul Hindemith wrote a parody of Tristan into an early opera, the offense to Wagner stirred up a resentment in his native Germany that lingered on for years. In the ’30s, when his music had ...

Hindemith, a German / Jewish composer, had left Germany during the rise of the Third Reich, settling first in Switzerland and then eventually in New York. It was there Hindemith connected with ...

To German Nazis he is merely a “noise maker” and his U. S. patroness is almost stone deaf. Nevertheless, Paul Hindemith is a god to many a musical modern and his U. S. debut in Washington. D. C. last ...

Eighty years is a long time for a major work by a major composer to wait for its premiere. But these things happen -- especially when a cranky commissioner is involved. Hindemith's "Piano Music with ...

Neoclassical composer Paul Hindemith thought composers can simultaneously inspire performers and move an audience. Hindemith described this selflessness as reaching a higher spiritual plane. This hour ...