Paul hindemith compositions by mozart
Album · Clara Haskil · · 8 songs..
Featured on the program will be Mozart's Symphony No. 41 in C (K ), Jupiter, and Hindemith's Symphonic Metamorphosis on Themes by Carl Maria von er.
One of the main innovators of musical modernism, Paul Hindemith (November 16, 1895 - December 28, 1963) was a composer, conductor, violist, educator, and theoretician. Of the four founders of modernism – Arnold Schoenberg, Igor Stravinsky, Béla Bartók, and Hindemith – one can argue that Hindemith was by far the most scholarly and intellectual in temperament.
His theoretic interests were both deep and wide-ranging and included medieval philosophy and the writings of the early church, as well as musical topics. He could play all the standard musical instruments at least passably and was a recognized virtuoso on the viola and viola d'amore.
A sought-after educator, he taught such composers as Lukas Foss, Arnold Cooke, Franz Reizenstein, and Norman Dello Joio and wielded great influence in Europe and the United States between the two World Wars.
Hindemith began composing in a post-Romantic, Reger-like idiom, although Hindemith's textures ar