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...season with the U.S. premiere of Paul Hindemith's first full-length opera, Cardillac (1926). The work reflects Hindemith's youthful expressionisms although its intricately polyphonic writing and its theme-the creator v. society-also presage such products of his maturity as the 1938 opera Mathis der Maler. The libretto by Ferdinand Lion is based on an E.T.A...
...world." Last week the Hamburgers, the first foreign company invited to appear in the Metropolitan's new house, justified their advance billing by stylishly bringing off a daunting array of New York premieres: a vividly atmospheric Lulu, by Alban Berg; a vocally polished and forceful Mathis der Maler, by Paul Hindemith; and a flowing and convincingly dramatic Jacobovsky and the Colonel, by Giselher Klebe...
...high point of the evening was the performance of Hindemith's symphony Mathis der Maler, made up of three sections from his rarely performed opera on the life of Grunewald. Intonation is a major problem in Hindemith. Chords follow one another in the most improbable succession; for the results to be intelligible, nearly every chord must be tuned up separately, and the musicians must have rehearsed it enough to remember what those unorthodox progressions sound like. It takes a lot of involvement and intelligence to play Hindemith--it's impossible to bomb through...
Still, very little of his work found its way into the standard orchestral repertory. Even such masterpieces as the opera Mathis der Maler, the Philharmonic Concerto, the symphony Harmonie der Welt, and the requiem are rarely heard. Though his music is easily accessible to modern audiences, it is admired mainly by musicians, who hear in it the evidence of a lofty musicianship that is not often encountered in modern composers...
...opera, Das Nusch-Nuschi, designed it for performance by Burmese marionettes, and worked in a parody of Tristan that outraged loyal Wagnerians. Since those high old days of the 1920s, Paul Hindemith has turned more serious, and his enormous output (including such masterpieces as the opera Mathis der Maler, the symphonies Symphonische Tänze and Die Harmonic der Welt) has established him as Germany's greatest living composer. But, at 67, he has not lost his ironic touch. He was still exercising it last week as he conducted the Berlin Philharmonic in Der Mainzer Umzug (The Mainz Procession...