Word: magd
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sounded almost as though Hindemith meant to atone for his atonalist sins. Explained he: "I am heading toward more simple treatment of harmonies and melodies." Of The Four Temperaments, Hindemith said: "I wrote it for Balanchine, but he never danced it. I don't know why." Die junge Magd, third of Hindemith's four, is a song cycle about a young maiden's life. Says the composer: "I suppose she dies in the end. Nobody knows." The fourth, Nobilis-sima Visione, was known as St. Francis when Massine danced it. "I never go to see the performances...
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