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"Without music, life would be a mistake." - Friedrich Nietzsche

Paul Hindemith

Paul Hindemith studied violin at the Dr Hoch's Konservatorium of Frankfurt and played from 1915 to 1923 in the Frankfurt opera. From 1921 to 1929 he played viola in the Amar Quarter, where he was advocate for contemporary music. Throughout the years, he held multiple positions as teachers, but he remained most popular as a violist. During the Second Worldwar he fleed to the USA and was given the American nationality in 1948, Later, he returned to Europe to teach at the university of Zürich.
His use rhythm, called "Motorik" by himself (a combination of Motor and Musik) is piercing, and at times even tormenting. It echoes the arrival of industralisation and the motor, as Hindemith opposes any form of sentimentality, psychology or personality. This way, Hinemith created shrill, neoclassicistic music (Gebrauchsmusik, music with a social or political aim).  His body of works is quite extensive, with more than 100 compositions in all kinds of genres. Even though he was an advocate of contemporary music, he never felt affiliated with dodecaphony. He wrote several theoretic treatises, among which his Unterweisung im Tonsatz from 1937 in which Hindemith offers several systems in which the tension between intervals, harmony and melody is analysed and elevated into a compositional technique. 

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Complete Works for Viola Vol. 2: Sonatas for Viola & Piano and Solo Viola
Tabea Zimmermann, Thomas Hoppe
Paul Hindemith
Complete Works for Viola Vol. 1: Viola and Orchestra
Tabea Zimmermann, DSO Berlin, Hans Graf
Various composers
Trio Brax
Trio Brax
Francis Poulenc, Paul Hindemith, Béla Bartók
Violin Sonatas
Elias David Moncado & Hansjacob Staemmler
Music of Weisgall and Hindemith
Martin Perry
Various composers
Go East!
Gülru Ensari & Herbert Schuch
Paul Hindemith - The Long Christmas Dinner
Jarett Ott
Weltentraum live
Michael Wollny Trio
Paul Hindemith, Karol Szymanovski, Ottorino Respighi
Szymanowski - Hindemith - Respighi: Violin Sonatas
Lea Birringer / Esther Birringer
Clarke - Hindemith - Bloch: '1919 '
Barbara Buntrock / Daniel Heide
Weltentraum
Michael Wollny Trio
Lili Boulanger, Claude Debussy, Paul Hindemith
Boulanger . Hindemith . Debussy
Wanzhen Li; Tanja Tetzlaff; Gunilla Süssmann; Alina Imbragimowa; Lars Vogt; Gustav Rivinius; Anna Rita Hitaj; Christian Tetzlaff; Volker Jacobsen; Bartolomew LaFollette
Illuminated Bass
Olivier Thiery / Sophie Labandibar
Violent Viola
Esther Apituley
Ludwig van Beethoven, Paul Hindemith, Johann Sebastian Bach
Kreutzer-Sonata and other works for violoncello & piano
Jelena Očić / Federico Lovato
Paul Hindemith
The Golden Hindemith
Landaas, Henninge/landaas, Vegard/nawrocka/nystroe
Hindemith:by the Britten Sinfonia 2
Daniel Hyde / The Britten Synfonia
Sonatas for Saxophone and Piano
Arno Bornkamp / Ivo Janssen
Various composers
In Memoriam Theo Bruins (1929-1993)
Theo Bruins
Choral Works for mixed chorus a capella
Netherlands Chamber Choir
Piano Works
Ivo Janssen
Ludus Tonalis
Ivo Janssen
Various composers
Harp Recital
Edward Witsenburg