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Hindemith Paul

Aitken, Robert

Amirov, Fikret

Amlin, Martin

Amram, David

Andriessen, Jurriaan

Arnold, Malcolm

Arrieu, Claude

Auric, Georges

Babbit, Milton

Bacchus, Peter

Bacri, Nicolas

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Boulanger, Marie-Juliette

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Echo for flute and piano

By Hindemith Paul

Paul Hindemith: Echo for flute and piano was written in 1942 in New Haven, Connecticut. The piece was premiered on February 18, 1943, at a concert of the Yale University School of Music.
The work is dedicated to his wife, Gertrude Hindemith. Gertrude was a constant companion and a skilled amateur musician (she played the cello and recorder). This dedication marks the piece as a more intimate, personal offering rather than a public, "virtuoso" commission.
The title "Echo" refers to the literal imitative relationship between the flute and the piano. The piano often "echoes" the flute’s melodic fragments, or vice versa, creating a delicate, conversational texture. The piece is written in a playful
meter. It is often described as a "Scherzando" or a "musical riddle," where the two instruments chase each other.
1942 was a year of stabilization and intense academic labor for Hindemith. By 1942, Hindemith was firmly established as a professor at Yale University. He had fled Nazi Germany in 1938 and was fully integrating into American academic life.
During this year, Hindemith was deeply immersed in the publication and promotion of his theoretical magnum opus, The Craft of Musical Composition (Unterweisung im Tonsatz). Echo serves as a practical application of his theory, utilizing "harmonic fluctuation" and a very clear, tonal center (B-flat Major).
While Hindemith was safe in the U.S., he was deeply concerned about the war in Europe. This period in his life is characterized by a "neoclassical serenity", a conscious effort to create order and beauty in his music as a counterpoint to the chaos of the world.

Stathis Karapanos (flute), Fil Liotis (piano), 2024, Ondine Oy / Naxos

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Claudia Giottoli (flute), Filippo Farinelli (piano), 2021, Brilliant Classics / Kontor New Media

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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.