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Paul Hindemith

1895 - 1963

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Paul Hindemith ( POWL HIN-də-mit; German: [ˌpaʊ̯l ˈhɪndəmɪt] ; 16 November 1895 – 28 December 1963) was a German and American composer, music theorist, teacher, violist 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), Das Unaufhörliche (1931), 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 (1946), a requiem based on Walt Whitman's poem. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Paul Hindemith is the 115th most popular composer (down from 105th in 2019), the 354th most popular biography from Germany (up from 358th in 2019) and the 21st most popular German Composer.

Paul Hindemith is most famous for his operas, symphonies, concertos, and chamber music.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Paul Hindemith ranks 115 out of 1,451. Before him are Domenico Cimarosa, Mikhail Glinka, Zoltán Kodály, Mily Balakirev, Muzio Clementi, and Francisco Tárrega. After him are György Ligeti, Carlo Gesualdo, Manuel de Falla, Bohuslav Martinů, Emmerich Kálmán, and Giulio Caccini.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1895, Paul Hindemith ranks 21. Before him are Mikhail Bakhtin, Richard Sorge, Wilm Hosenfeld, William Giauque, Max Horkheimer, and Paul Éluard. After him are Semyon Timoshenko, Ragnar Frisch, Dolores Ibárruri, Gerhard Domagk, Anastas Mikoyan, and Sergei Yesenin. Among people deceased in 1963, Paul Hindemith ranks 19. Before him are Ngo Dinh Diem, Thích Quảng Đức, Francis Poulenc, Abd el-Krim, Theodor Heuss, and Sylvia Plath. After him are Archduchess Elisabeth Marie of Austria, Yasujirō Ozu, Józef Gosławski, Nâzım Hikmet, Carmen Amaya, and Abd al-Karim Qasim.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Paul Hindemith ranks 354 out of 7,253. Before him are Max Horkheimer (1895), Karl-Heinz Rummenigge (1955), Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1945), Christian V of Denmark (1646), Otto of Bavaria (1848), and Arno Allan Penzias (1933). After him are Klaus Meine (1948), Hermann Hoth (1885), Hans Fischer (1881), Julius Streicher (1885), Hermann Ebbinghaus (1850), and Rudolf Carnap (1891).

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Among COMPOSERS In Germany

Among composers born in Germany, Paul Hindemith ranks 21. Before him are Hans Zimmer (1957), Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928), Johann Pachelbel (1653), Heinrich Schütz (1585), Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714), and Giacomo Meyerbeer (1791). After him are Max Bruch (1838), Fanny Mendelssohn (1805), Wilhelm Friedemann Bach (1710), Kurt Weill (1900), Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach (1732), and Max Reger (1873).

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