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Hindemith

American  
[hin-duh-mith, -mit] / ˈhɪn də mɪθ, -mɪt /

noun

  1. Paul, 1895–1963, U.S. composer, born in Germany.


Hindemith British  
/ ˈhɪndəmɪt /

noun

  1. Paul (paul). 1895–1963, German composer and musical theorist, who opposed the twelve-tone technique. His works include the song cycle Das Marienleben (1923) and the opera Mathis der Maler (1938)

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And her explorations of music by Peter Cornelius, Max Reger and Paul Hindemith, though less familiar, are no less appealing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 23, 2025

Octaves in contrary motion smoked with ferocity in the Hindemith, and sforzandos in the Beethoven reintroduced audiences to the elemental wildness of a composer of repertory standards.

From New York Times ● Mar. 8, 2024

But the symphony’s final moments — a gripping sequence of volcanic fanfares that scatter the opera’s darkness — answered any questions I was forming about Wilkins’s handle on Hindemith.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 18, 2022

A Bard concert on Aug. 14 will reconstruct these epic programs, bringing together composers from Palestrina and Monteverdi to Stravinsky and Hindemith.

From New York Times ● Jul. 30, 2021

In experiments with rats Hindemith found that the saponin from Aesculus hippocastanum is not toxic in daily oral doses of 87.5 mg. per kg.

From Northern Nut Growers Association Incorporated 39th Annual Report at Norris, Tenn. September 13-15 1948 by Northern Nut Growers Association

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