Hindemith

American  

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

noun

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

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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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Example Sentences

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

The final work, the symphony Hindemith made out of music from his opera “Mathis der Maler,” needs advocacy.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 9, 2020

But there were also champions of the avant-garde, such as Wassily Kandinsky, who was close with Schoenberg, and Oskar Schlemmer, who used a piano-roll score by Hindemith for a version of his “Triadic Ballet.”

From New York Times • Aug. 22, 2019

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