Paul Hindemith: Quick Facts


Facts

Born November 16, 1895 • Hanau • Germany • (Birthday in 3 days)
Died December 28, 1963 (aged 68) • Frankfurt am Main • Germany
Notable Works ā€œCardillacā€ • ā€œDie junge Magdā€ • ā€œKammermusikā€ • ā€œMathis der Malerā€
Movement / Style Expressionism • Gebrauchsmusik • Neoclassical art • Novembergruppe
Subjects Of Study music theory • musical composition • tonality

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Portrait of Benjamin Britten, British composer, wearing a suit and patterned tie, looking toward the camera with a neutral expression.
Benjamin Britten
British composer
Portrait of Czech composer Antonin Dvorak with a beard, wearing a suit jacket, waistcoat, and bow tie.
AntonĆ­n DvořÔk
Bohemian composer
Portrait of composer Sergey Prokofiev, circa 1938, wearing round glasses, a suit, and a tie, looking slightly to the side.
Sergey Prokofiev
Russian composer
Ludwig van Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven
German composer
Johannes Brahms
Johannes Brahms
German composer
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Russian composer
Luigi Boccherini
Luigi Boccherini
Italian composer
Sergey Rachmaninoff in profile, seated at a piano, playing with both hands on the keys.
Sergey Rachmaninoff
Russian musician
Saint-Saƫns, Camille
Camille Saint-Saƫns
French composer
Igor Stravinsky
Igor Stravinsky
Russian composer
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Alban Berg
Austrian composer
Painting by Elias Gottlieb Hausmann of Johann Sebastian Bach wearing a dark coat with a white shirt and holding a sheet of music in his left hand.
Johann Sebastian Bach
German composer
Felix Mendelssohn
Felix Mendelssohn
German musician and composer
Robert Schumann
Robert Schumann
German composer
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Louis Spohr
German musician
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Austrian composer
Joseph Haydn
Joseph Haydn
Austrian composer
Schuller, Gunther
Gunther Schuller
American composer
Ditters von Dittersdorf, Carl
Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf
Austrian composer and violinist
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Easley Blackwood, Jr.
American composer