Paul Hindemith, composer, conductor and violist, was one of the most important artistic figures of the 20th century. Professor in Berlin since 1927, in the Thirties he engaged in the reorganization of musical life in Turkey, then in 1938 he fled his native Germany as the Nazi regime defined his works "degenerate music" despite the strenuous support by conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler. Hindemith moved to the United States where he taught at Yale and Harvard Universities. In 1946 he became an American citizen but in 1953 he returned to Europe to teach at the University of Zurich, intensifying his conducting activity and that of violist of the Rebner Quartet. Hindemith composed operas, oratories, ballets, symphonies, concertos for solo instruments and orchestra, chamber music, and a specific project of Sonatas for wind instruments and piano started in the Thirties and concluded in 1955. This Sonata was composed in 1936 and is developed in four movements, a typical of Hindemith's classicism, and represents one of the cornerstones of flute literature.
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Paul Hindemith
Sonata for Flute and Piano Play
Recorded on 09/04/2019, uploaded on 03/17/2020
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Paul Hindemith, composer, conductor and violist, was one of the most important artistic figures of the 20th century. Professor in Berlin since 1927, in the Thirties he engaged in the reorganization of musical life in Turkey, then in 1938 he fled his native Germany as the Nazi regime defined his works "degenerate music" despite the strenuous support by conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler. Hindemith moved to the United States where he taught at Yale and Harvard Universities. In 1946 he became an American citizen but in 1953 he returned to Europe to teach at the University of Zurich, intensifying his conducting activity and that of violist of the Rebner Quartet. Hindemith composed operas, oratories, ballets, symphonies, concertos for solo instruments and orchestra, chamber music, and a specific project of Sonatas for wind instruments and piano started in the Thirties and concluded in 1955. This Sonata was composed in 1936 and is developed in four movements, a typical of Hindemith's classicism, and represents one of the cornerstones of flute literature.
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