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Paul Hindemith
German composer (1895–1963)
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 16 November 1895
- Died
- 28 December 1963
- Place of birth
- Hanau
- Place of death
- Frankfurt am Main
- Sex or gender
- male
- Given name
- Paul
- Family name
- Hindemith
- Sibling
- Rudolf Hindemith
- Occupation
- classical composer, conductor, professor of music composition, musicologist, music educator, music theorist, viola d'amore player, university teacher, concertmaster, violinist, violist, librettist
- Citizenship
- Germany, West Germany, United States
- Religion
- Lutheranism
- Awards
- Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order, Bach Prize of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, Balzan Prize, Wihuri Sibelius Prize, Goethe Plaque of the City of Frankfurt, Berliner Kunstpreis, Honorary doctor of the Free University of Berlin, honorary doctorate of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt, Honorary doctor of the University of Oxford, Pour le Mérite, Honorary Member of the International Society for Contemporary Music
- archives at
- Paul-Hindemith-Institut
- cause of death
- acute pancreatitis
- described by source
- Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1969–1978), UbuWeb, BEIC Digital Library, Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947), Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 6, Brief Biographical Dictionary of Foreign Composers, Dresdner Hefte
- documentation files at
- SAPA Foundation, Swiss Archive of the Performing Arts
- educated at
- Hoch Conservatory
- employer
- Harvard University, Berlin University of the Arts, Amar Quartet, Yale University, Hacettepe University Ankara State Conservatory, University of Zurich
- languages spoken, written or signed
- German
- list of works
- list of compositions by Paul Hindemith
- manner of death
- natural causes
- member of
- American Academy of Arts and Letters, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts, American Philosophical Society
- name in native language
- Paul Hindemith
- notable work
- String Quartet No. 2, Symphony in B-flat for Band, Der Schwanendreher, Konzertmusik, Op. 41
- place of burial
- Q105015040
- pseudonym
- Paul Merano
- related category
- Category:Compositions by Paul Hindemith
- relative
- Hans Flesch
- student
- Lukas Foss, Graham George, Norman Dello Joio, Mel Powell, Yehudi Wyner, Harold Shapero, Hans Otte, Ruth Schönthal, Leonard Sarason, George Roy Hill, Violet Archer, John Avison
- student of
- Adolf Rebner, Arnold Mendelssohn, Bernhard Sekles
- topic's main category
- Category:Paul Hindemith
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