Hindemith

(hin’-dé-mit), (1) Paul, b. Hanau, Germany, Nov. 16, 1895; composer, viola player; one of the most prolific, scholarly and original comps. among the younger German school, combining remarkable command of cpt. with original harmonic style, including use of atonality; there are both romantic and parodistic elements in his work; studied romp. with Arnold Mendel ohn and Sekles; in Frankfort Op. orch., 1915-23; after which he was active mainly as composer and as a member of the Amar String Quartet; taught at Berlin Hochsch., 1927-34; in latter year his music fell under ban in Germany as opposed to cultural policies then enforced by the state regime, although he had in his opera “Mathis der Maler” (1934) shown a return to orthodox tonality and romantic subject matter; c. (operas) ‘“‘Mérder, Hoffnung der Frauen,” “Das Nusch- Nuschi” and “‘Sankta Johanna,’ 3 one-act works (1921); ‘‘Cardillac” (1926), in which there was:a return to set forms and writing for voices; ‘“Neues vom Tage” (1929), a work introducing the more banal features of contemporary life as recorded in newspapers of sensational sort; “‘ Hin und Zurtick,”’ short opera using, then reversing, a film; dance-pantomime “Der Démon,’ an oratorio ‘‘Das Unaufhorliche,” (cantata) ‘‘Die Serenaden”’; (vocal works) ‘‘Marienleben,” ‘“‘Junge Nonne,” and a large amount of ingenious chamber music, incl. 4 string quartets, sonatas for piano and vin., viola and ’cello, piano suite ‘‘z9r2,” orchestral, piano, vln., ’cello, viola and viola d’amour concertos, various forms of writing known as ‘‘Kammermusik” pieces for piano and ’cello, songs; Prof. of music, Yale Univ., 1941. (2) Rudolf, bro. of Paul, b. Jan. 9, 1900, in Hanau; ’cellist; pupil of Hoch Cons.; was solo ’cellist at Munich and Vienna State Op.; mem. of Amar Quartet and of Munich Trio; after 1927 taught at Carlsruhe Cons. Hinrichs (hin’/-rikhs), (1) Fz., Halle-on the-Saale, ca. 1820—Berlin, 1892; composer and writer on music. sister (2) Maria. Vide FRANz. (3) Gustav, Ludwigslust, Mecklenburg, 1850—Mountain Lakes, N. J., March 26, 1942; conductor; studied with his father, Marxsen and Reisland; early active as a violinist, after 1870 in San Francisco; cond. of Amer. Op. Co., 86; 1886-96, Thomas, 1885- of his own opera company; 1899-1906, dir. of music at Columbia Univ.; 1903-08, cond. at Met. Op.; c. operas, orch. works, choral pieces, songs, etc. Hin’shaw, William Wade, b. Union, Iowa, Nov. 3, 1867; ba and impresario; studied with R. A. Heritage, L. G. Gottschalk and L. A. Phelps; early active as voice teacher and choir dir.; début at St. Louis with Savage Op. Co., 1899, as “Me phis top heles”; organised school of opera, Chicago, 1903;1909 founded Intern at’! Gr. Op. Co.; sang at Met. Op. House, 1910-13; after 1917, manager of Soc. of Amer. Singers, N. Y., and later of his own touring opera company which gave Mozart and other works in chamber form.