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...program will consist of Sonata No. 6 in G Major by J.S. Bach; Sonata in F Minor, Opus 80 by Prokofleff; Sonata in E by Hindemith; and Fantasia in C Major, Opus 159 b Schubert...
...HINDEMITH: SYMPHONIC METAMORPHOSES ON THEMES BY CARL MARIA VON WEBER (Wilhelm Furtwängler conducting the Berlin Philharmonic; Deutsche Grammophon). Choreographer George Balanchine composed his Metamorphoses to this music: beetlelike creatures eventually turn into birds. Furtwängler, an early champion of Hindemith, calls upon his own powerful magic to translate the themes into various musical modes, from unsettling nervous buzzings to biting jazz. On the other side, Furtwängler conjures up a more peaceful succession of Metamorphoses, also written in the 1940s, by the 81-year-old Richard Strauss...
Complete Musician. Hindemith was a composer's composer-and a complete musician. He wrote music, as Albert Einstein once said, "as a tree bears fruit"-great bushels of music, turned out in orderly, workmanlike style. He was a concert violist and pianist, a competent player of every other instrument in the orchestra, and a greatly admired conductor. In a single day at the Berlin Festival in 1960, Hindemith conducted four choirs, played a three-string vielle in a recital of 14th century songs, then sat back to listen to the world première of his Motets for Tenor...
Close Friends. Hindemith was born in Hanau and was playing the violin in the city's dance halls and beer gardens by the time he was 13. When his compositions were banned in Germany in 1934, Hindemith turned to reorganizing the music education program of Turkey, then came to the U.S. in 1940. He was a professor of music at Yale until 1953, when he returned to Europe and settled down in Zurich. He was a short, round little man of robust health until circulatory ailments began to plague him in his declining years. Hindemith died at 68, following...
Died. Paul Hindemith, 68, master composer in the German baroque tradition; following a stroke; in Frankfurt (see Music...