He rejected outright Hindemith's Piano Music with Orchestra Op.

In the 20th century, composers have also written for more varied groups, with Anton Webern's Quartet, opus 22 ( 1930 ), for example, being for piano, violin, clarinet and tenor saxophone, and Paul Hindemith's quartet ( 1938 ) as well as Olivier Messiaen's Quatuor pour la fin du temps ( 1940 ) both for piano, violin, cello and clarinet.

The tenor's other recordings include: Wagner's Die Walküre ( with Birgit Nilsson and Hans Hotter, conducted by Sir Georg Solti, 1965 ); Puccini's Tosca ( excerpts in German, opposite Anja Silja, conducted by Lorin Maazel, 1966 ); Richard Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos ( 1968 ); Fidelio ( 1969 ); Wagner's Lohengrin ( 1971 ); Puccini's Madama Butterfly ( with Maria Chiara, 1972 ); Saint-Saëns ' Samson and Delilah ( 1973 ); Strauss's Die Frau ohne Schatten ( 1977 ); Hindemith's Mathis der Maler ( with Fischer-Dieskau and William Cochran, 1979 ); Franz Schmidt's Notre Dame ( 1988 ); and, from the Bayreuth Festival, Die Walküre ( with Nilsson and Theo Adam, 1967 ) and Parsifal ( with Dame Gwyneth Jones, led by Pierre Boulez, 1970 ).

Palestrina is one of three characteristic German-language operas of the early 20th century, outside the main stream of opera, which deal with the isolation of the creative individual, two others being Paul Hindemith's Mathis der Maler ( about Matthias Grünewald ), completed 1935, and the Berlin-based Ferruccio Busoni's Doktor Faust, which was left unfinished in 1924.

Later Sala toured Germany with the Trautonium ; in 1931 he was the soloist in a performance of Hindemith's Concert for Trautonium with String Quartet.

Sellars was invited to the Salzburg and Glyndebourne Festivals, where he mounted productions of various 20th-century operas, notably Olivier Messiaen's Saint François d ' Assise, Paul Hindemith's Mathis der Maler, György Ligeti's Le Grand Macabre, and, with choreographer Mark Morris, the premiere of John Adams's and Alice Goodman's Nixon in China and The Death of Klinghoffer, and the premiere of Kaija Saariaho's first opera, L ' amour de loin.

He is credited with premiere performances of many major works for trumpet including Paul Hindemith's Sonata for Trumpet and Piano ( with Hindemith at the piano ), and Alan Hovhannes ' Prayer of St. Gregory.

Hindemith's most popular work, both on record and in the concert hall, is probably the Symphonic Metamorphosis of Themes by Carl Maria von Weber, written in 1943.

* January 20-Paul Hindemith's Symphonic Metamorphoses on Themes of Weber is premiered in New York City.

" The Triumph of Timelessness over Time in Hindemith's ' Turandot Scherzo ' from Symphonic Metamorphosis of Themes by Carl Maria von Weber ".

" Analysis: Musical Metamorphoses in Hindemith's March from Symphonic Metamorphosis of Themes by Carl Maria von Weber ".

At this time Paul Hindemith's Mathis der Maler was performing at the theatre and the following opera to be performed was Puccini's Turandot.

When Hindemith's The Craft of Musical Composition was published, Boulanger asked the composer for his permission to translate the text into French and to add her own comments.

Ironically, after the burning of the Reichstag in 1933, the German seat of the government was moved to the Krolloper, the state opera house in Berlin which, under the adventurous directorship of Otto Klemperer, had seen the premieres of many innovative works of the 1920s, including Hindemith's Neues vom Tage.

His last performance, at the City Opera, was of Hindemith's Mathis der Maler in September 1995.

He was introduced to Hans Fleisch, an important radio executive ( also Paul Hindemith's brother-in-law and a Jew ), by composer Kurt Weill.

A new choreography to Hindemith's music was devised by Jimmy Gamonet De Los Heros for a 1990 production at Wolf Trap, titled Movilissimanoble, but was pronounced " at best a qualified success as a symphonic abstraction in a neo-Balanchinian mode " ( Kriegsman 1990 ).

A year later, the Tokyo Festival Ballet brought to New York Minoru Suzuki's Henyo: Unknown Symphony, a ballet danced to a recording of Hindemith's music, but it was not well-received: " The choreography kept 16 dancers busy.

" Paul Hindemith's distinctive modal language is represented by both his a cappella Mass and his Six Chansons on texts by Rilke, while a more contrapuntally dissonant style comes through in his secular requiem, When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd.

Notable examples are Paul Hindemith's Symphony in B-flat for Band from 1951 ( Hansen 2005, 95 ), and Alan Hovhaness's Symphonies No. 4, op.

* Paul Hindemith's concerto for flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, harp, and orchestra as well as his concerto for trumpet, bassoon, and strings

Hindemith's philosophy also encompassed melody — he strove for melodies that do not clearly outline major or minor triads.

Everest Records issued a recording of Hindemith's postwar When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd (" A Requiem for Those We Love ") on LP, conducted by Hindemith.

* Concerto for Orchestra by Walter Piston ( 1933 ), which is based in part on Hindemith's work

However, possibly influenced by Paul Hindemith's concept of Gebrauchsmusik ( music that serves a social function ) and, as an avid socialist, he wrote a number of pieces for worker's unions and communist theatre groups.

The heckelphone has also been employed in chamber music, one of the most notable instances being Hindemith's Trio for Heckelphone, Viola, and Piano, Op.

As for toccatas written for string instruments, the final movement of John Adams ' Violin Concerto is entitled " Toccare ," a possible reference to the origins of the word toccata ; and the first movement ( Schnelle halbe ) of Paul Hindemith's fifth Kammermusik ( a viola concerto ) is written as a toccata.

Paul Hindemith's Der Schwanendreher ( literally, " The swan-turner ", in reference to cooking over a spit ) is a concerto for viola and orchestra.

The story, set during the German Peasants ' War ( 1524-25 ), concerns Matthias's struggle for artistic freedom of expression in the repressive climate of his day, which mirrored Hindemith's own struggle as the Nazis attained power and repressed dissent.

In 1992, he created 35 mm projected backgrounds from small-format film and video elements, for Peter Sellars's production of Paul Hindemith's Opera Mathis der Maler, at London's Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.

: Contains Paul Hindemith's Langsames Stueck für Orchester und Rondo für Trautonium ( Slow Piece for Orchestra And Rondo for Trautonium ), Sala's own compositions, dating from 1992 to 1995, and his soundtrack to Der Wuerger von Schloss Dartmore ( The Strangler of Castle Dartmore )

: Hindemith's 7 Triostuecke für drei Trautonien ( 7 Triopieces for three Trautonien ), Konzertstueck fuer Trautonium und Streicher ( Concertpiece for Trautonium And Strings ) written in 1931 and recorded in 1977.

He served as a vocal coach and chorus master for the world premieres of Alban Berg's Lulu and Paul Hindemith's Mathis der Maler.

Hindemith's relationship to the Nazis is a complicated one.

Most of Hindemith's music employs a unique system that is tonal but non-diatonic.

The order of the keys follows Hindemith's ranking of musical intervals around the tonal center of C.

Much of Hindemith's music begins in consonant territory, progresses rather smoothly into dissonance, and resolves at the end in full, consonant chords.

A yearly festival of Hindemith's music is held at William Paterson University in Wayne, New Jersey.

More modern uses in classical music include Paul Hindemith's Kammermusik No. 1, op.

In this post he enhanced his reputation as a champion of new music, playing a number of new works, including Leoš Janáček's From the House of the Dead, Arnold Schönberg's Erwartung, Igor Stravinsky's Oedipus rex, and Paul Hindemith's Cardillac.

* March 12-the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Wilhelm Furtwängler given the world premiere of Paul Hindemith's symphony Mathis der Maler in Berlin.

Paul Hindemith's First Piano Sonata is influenced by Hölderlin's poem Der Main.

The Stadt-Theater performed not only established repertoire but also new works, such as Paul Hindemith's Sancta Susanna, Igor Stravinsky's The Soldier's Tale, Ernst Krenek's Johnny spielt auf, and Leoš Janáček's Jenůfa.