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Hindemith Paul

Aitken, Robert

Amirov, Fikret

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Amram, David

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Abendkonzert (Evening Concert) for flute and piano

By Hindemith Paul

Paul Hindemith: Abendkonzert (Evening Concert) for flute and piano was written in 1932, originally as the fourth and final section of the Plöner Musiktag (A Day of Music at Plön) cycle to be performed by solo flute and strings (or piano).
In 1932, Hindemith was deeply committed to the movement known as Gebrauchsmusik (Music for Use). He believed that music should serve a social purpose and be accessible to students and amateurs, not just elite professionals. That year he
spent four days at the State Orchestra School in Plön, Germany, during which he wrote an entire day's worth of music, from morning fanfares to this "Evening Concert", to be performed by the students of the State Orchestra School in Plön.
The premiere took place on June 20, 1932, in Plön. Hindemith himself participated in the day-long festivities, which culminated in the Abendkonzert.
The year 1932 was a "calm before the storm" for Hindemith. This was the final year of the Weimar Republic. While Hindemith was at the height of his fame in Germany, the Nazi party (which would take power in 1933) was already beginning to label his music as "Cultural Bolshevism." At this time, Hindemith was a professor at the Berlin Musikhochschule. He was obsessed with the idea of musical citizenship: the belief that everyone should play an instrument to understand society better. Abendkonzert embodies this philosophy musically.
1932 marks a shift away from his earlier, aggressive "Bürgerschreck" (shock the bourgeoisie) style toward the more tonal, neoclassical, and "harmonic fluctuation" system he would eventually codify in his craft.

Stathis Karapanos (flute), Christoph Eschenbach (conductor), Schleswig-Holstein Festival Orchestra, 2024, Ondine Oy, / Naxos

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Rudolf Döbler (flute), Jobst Liebrecht (conductor), Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, 2010, Wergo / Orchard

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Hindemith Paul

Paul Hindemith (1895-1963) was German composer, violinist, violist and conductor, one of the main figures of so-called New Objectivity (art movement against expressionism, implying more practical engagement with the world).  Since 1927 Hindemith taught at the Berlin's Hochschule für Musik. However, later in 1930's, when Hindemith music was banned by Nazis as "atonal and noisy" he had to leave for Turkey where he helped to establish Turkish State Opera and Ballet, thus greatly influencing musical life in Turkey.

In 1940 he founded the Yale Collegium Musicum in US making great impact on many notable students. Mostly known compositions: Symphonic Metamorphosis of Themes by Carl Maria von Weber, opera Mathis der Maler (Matthias the Painter), song circle Das Marienleben (The Life of Mary), and Der Schwanendreher (The Swan Turner) for viola and orchestra.