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 ...

There is lots to admire as the quintet and pianist capture Paul Hindemith’s best known sonatas to reveal their hidden depths As well as being one of the 20th century’s leading neoclassical composers, ...

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 ...

Jed Distler introduces a 20th-century cyclic celebration of pianistic polyphony Two years after becoming Professor of Composition at Yale University in 1940, Paul Hindemith began writing a series of ...

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 ...

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 ...

That there should be over 300 people at a concert of twentieth-century chamber music is remarkable. This was, however, not the only remarkable factor in Monday evening's all-Hindemith program at Paine ...

If, as Shakespeare famously wrote, every man in his time plays many parts, it should come as no surprise that various observers will see him differently over time. The time span needn’t even be a ...

Stephen Johnson explores the relationship between Paul Hindemith's Symphonic Metamorphosis and the themes by Carl Maria von Weber on which it is loosely based. Show more Stephen Johnson explores the ...