Paul Hindemith

1. What style of music did Paul Hindemith develop?
2. Did Paul Hindemith have children?
3. Why did Hindemith leave Germany?
4. What era is Hindemith?

What style of music did Paul Hindemith develop?

Style. Hindemith is among the most significant German composers of his time. His early works are in a late romantic idiom, and he later produced expressionist works, rather in the style of the early Schoenberg, before developing a leaner, contrapuntally complex style in the 1920s.

Did Paul Hindemith have children?

He settled in Hanau, where he married his senior by two years, Marie Sophie Warnecke, on 23 March 1895. The couple had three children: Paul (born 1895), Antonie Elisabeth (called Toni) (born 1898) and Rudolf (born 1900).

Why did Hindemith leave Germany?

Concerned for their safety, Paul and Gertrud Hindemith left Germany for Switzerland in 1938, before emigrating to the United States two years later. ... Immediately after the war, his music was considered to be among the rare contemporary German works free of Nazi influence.

What era is Hindemith?

Paul Hindemith, (born November 16, 1895, Hanau, near Frankfurt am Main, Germany—died December 28, 1963, Frankfurt am Main), one of the principal German composers of the first half of the 20th century and a leading musical theorist.