Paul Hindemith

Born in Hanau on 16 November 1895, died in Frankfurt am Main on 28 December 1963; Paul Hindemith was a composer, violist, conductor and music theorist. He studied at the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt, was leader of the Frankfurt opera orchestra from 1915 to 1923 and from 1921 played the viola in the Amar Quartet. From 1927 he taught composition at the Berlin Musikhochschule. In 1938 he emigrated to Switzerland and in 1940 to the USA, where he taught at Yale University until 1953; he then returned to Europe and lived near Zurich. His output comprises operas, among them “Mathis der Maler”, symphonies, concertos, the series of Kammermusiken and sonatas for nearly every orchestral instrument, and the piano cycle “Ludus tonalis”; in the Unterweisung im Tonsatz he set out his theory of harmony. In the Cybele catalogue he is represented by the Drei Stücke op. 8 and the piece A frog he went a-courting on Hindemith. Heiden. Skolnik – Works for Cello and Piano (2019), played by Cécile Grüebler and Tamara Chitadze.