German-born American composer (1895–1963)

Paul Hindemith

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German-born American composer (1895–1963)

Genres

Opera Symphony

Awards Received

Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts

Bach Prize of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg

Balzan Prize

Wihuri Sibelius Prize

Goethe Plaque of the City of Frankfurt

Berliner Kunstpreis

Honorary doctor of the Free University of Berlin

honorary doctorate of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt

Honorary doctor of the University of Oxford

Music

Member of, past and present

American Academy of Arts and Letters

American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts

Paul Hindemith (/ˈpaʊlˈhɪndəmɪt/; 16 November 1895 – 28 December 1963) was a prolific German composer, violist, violinist, teacher and conductor. He founded the Amar Quartet in 1921, touring extensively in Europe. As a composer, he became a major advocate of the Neue Sachlichkeit (new objectivity) style of music in the 1920s, with compositions such as Kammermusik, including works with viola and viola d'amore as solo instruments in a neo-Bachian spirit. Other notable compositions include his song cycle Das Marienleben (1923), Der Schwanendreher for viola and orchestra (1935), the opera Mathis der Maler (1938), the Symphonic Metamorphosis of Themes by Carl Maria von Weber (1943), and the oratorio When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd, a requiem based on Walt Whitman's poem (1946).