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Paul was born in the German town of Hanau in 1895, on December Sixteen. We might
assume that Hindemith felt a pull in the musical direction from a very early age; Paul’s father was
a painter and did not want his son becoming a musician, so our little composer-to-be ran away at
the age of 11, and started his own life. Paul taught himself the violin and viola, and began earning
his living by playing at Cafes and other such establishments. Eventually, Hindemith learned the
rudiments of all the instruments that mattered, so he could play them at least passably-- but he
was surely a virtuoso at his viola and viola d’amore.
Eventually, Hindemith ended up at the Frankfurt Conservatory, where he studied his music
performance under the tutelage of people like Arnold Mendelssohn. While there, Hindemith
showed increasing interest in the field of composition-- he began writing in earnest around the
time he completed his courses at the Conservatory, and began establishing himself in the music
culture through chamber music and expressionistic opera.
Paul landed a pretty major job in the Frankfurt Opera Orchestra... he was first
concertmaster, and then conductor over the years 1915-1923. After this, he founded his Amar
String Quartet, for which he was violist-- the group became pretty celebrated and performed
successfully throughout Europe. It’s agreed that 1921 was when Hindemith began to come into
his own, and emerge as well-known into the world as a composer and performer. Hindemith
appeared regularly at the Donaueschingen Festival starting that year, and in 1922-24 his Chamber
Works were performed at the Salzburg Festival (which I assume was a fairly big deal at the time).
Up until about 1925, Hindemith was pretty conventional, going along more or less
complacently with the musical norms of his time. But in 1925, he came...
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