Release Date: 12 January 1999
Label: Naxos - Nxc / Naxos Classics
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 730099407823
Genres: Classical
Composer/Series: HINDEMITH
Description
Paul Hindemith (1895 - 1963) Mathis der Maler Symphony Nobilissima visione: Tanzlegende Symphonic Metamorphosis on Themes of Carl Maria von Weber Born in Frankfurt in 1895, the son of a house-painter. Paul Hindemith studied the violin privately with teachers from the Hoch Conservatory before being admitted to that institution with a free place at the age of thirteen. By 1915 he was playing second violin in his teacher Adolf Rebner's quartet and had a place in the opera orchestra, of which he became leader in the same year. His father was killed in the war and Hindemith himself spent some time from 1917 as a member of a regimental band, returning after the war to the Rebner Quartet and the Frankfurt Opera Orchestra. At the same time he was making his name as a composer of particular originality, striving, at this time, to bring about a revolution in concert-going, with his concept of functional Gebrauchsmusik, and devoting much of his energy to the promotion of new music, in particular at the Donaueschingen Festival. Having changed from violin to viola, he formed the Amar-Hindemith Quartet in 1921, an ensemble that won considerable distinction for its performances of new music. In 1927 Hindemith was appointed professor of composition at the Berlin Musikhochschule, two years later disbanding the quartet, to which he could no longer give time, but performing in a string trio with Josef Wolfsthal, replaced on his death by Szymon Goldberg, and the cellist Emanuel Feuermann. He was also enjoying a career as a viola soloist. The political events of 1933 brought no immediate change in his circumstances and it seemed that he might even be accepted by the National Socialist Party, in spite of his openly expressed his antipathy, as a true German composer. Matters turned out very differently. In 1932 the conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler invited Hindemith to write a Philharmonic Concerto to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. Two years later came the Mathis der Maler Symphony, a composition that gave a foretaste of Hindemith's new opera Mathis der Maler, and this too was performed under Furtwängler with some success. In the same year, however, the National Socialist Party condemned Hindemith's music. Furtwängler, in a famous article in the Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, defended the freedom of the artist and the political interference that prevented the staging in Berlin of the opera Mathis der Maler led him to resign from his positions with the Philharmonic and the Berlin Opera. Goebbels now saw fit to describe Hindemith as an atonaler Geräuschemacher (atonal noise-maker). To the Nazis he was, in fact, nicht tragbar, persona non grata. In 1935 he was given leave from his position at the Musikhochschule, visiting America and spending time in Turkey, where he established the Konservatuar in Ankara and devised a national plan for music education. In 1937 he finally resigned from his post in Berlin, moving firs
Tracklisting
Dariia Lytvishko
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra; Marin Alsop
Alice Di Piazza; Basel Sinfonietta; NDR Bigband; Titus Engel
Anna Alas i Jove; Miquel Villalba
David Childs; Black Dyke Band; Nicholas Childs
Various
Various
Lully
