Paul Hindemith

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German neoclassical composer and conductor who believed that music should have a social purpose (1895-1963)

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Hin und Zurück ("There and Back": 1927) is an operatic 'sketch' (Op. 45a) in one scene by Paul Hindemith, with a German libretto by Marcellus Schiffer. Source: Internet

In the late 1930s, composer Paul Hindemith ranked musical intervals according to their relative dissonance based on these and similar harmonic relationships. Source: Internet

Many Modernists came to this viewpoint, for example Paul Hindemith in his late turn towards mysticism. Source: Internet

Paul Hindemith and Vadim Borisovsky made an early attempt at an organization in 1927 with the Violists' World Union. Source: Internet

Paul Hindemith 's distinctive modal language is represented by both his a cappella Mass and his Six Chansons on texts by Rilke, while a more contrapuntally dissonant style comes through in his secular requiem, When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd. Source: Internet

Paul Hindemith used the same instrumentation as Schubert for his own Octet. Source: Internet

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