Paul Hindemith
German composer
Died when: 68 years 42 days (817 months)Star Sign: Scorpio
Paul Hindemith (/'pa?l'h?nd?m?t/; 16 November 1895 – 28 December 1963) was a German composer, music theorist, teacher, violist and conductor.He founded the Amar Quartet in 1921, touring extensively in Europe.
As a composer, he became a major advocate of the Neue Sachlichkeit (new objectivity) style of music in the 1920s, with compositions such as Kammermusik, including works with viola and viola d'amore as solo instruments in a neo-Bachian spirit.
Other notable compositions include his song cycle Das Marienleben (1923), Der Schwanendreher for viola and orchestra (1935), the opera Mathis der Maler (1938), the Symphonic Metamorphosis of Themes by Carl Maria von Weber (1943), and the oratorio When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd, a requiem based on Walt Whitman's poem (1946).
