Hindemith composed seven string quartets and like so much of his vast output, which took in almost every conceivable musical genre, they are rarely heard nowadays in the concert hall. The Second and ...

Will the real Paul Hindemith please stand up? If you only know the composer's later works you may well be taken aback by the sometimes almost puppyish eagerness of his Quartet in F minor, Op. 10, ...

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Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by By Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim In 1925 Paul Hindemith wrote a short piece for string quartet that — when played well — provides seven minutes of some ...

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Paul Hindemith is a composer whose reputation seems to have slipped through a historical black hole. Condemned by the Nazis as an "atonal noisemaker", he was rejected by the avant garde for not being ...