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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Hindemith

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

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

Phil Weimar program turned to Hindemith, Weill and Schoenberg, each of whom contributed to artistic innovation and debate in their Weimar years in a different ways.

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