HINDEMITH, PAUL (1895— ), German composer, was born at Hanau on Nov. 16, 1895, and studied at the Hoch con servatorium in Frankfurt. For eight years (1915-23) he was first leader and then conductor of the opera there. In 1923 he joined the Amar quartet as viola-player. Hindemith is one of the most important of the younger school of German composers and among much which is frankly experimental and subversive he has pro duced a good deal also which has secured the genuine approbation of even conservatively-inclined musicians. His works include three one-act operas, Morder, Hofinung der Frauen (1921), Das Nusch Nuschi (I 9 21) , Sancta Susanna (19 2 2) ; Cardillac (19 2 7) and much chamber music, amongst which are four string quartets, a string trio, a wind quintet, and six works for chamber orchestra with one solo instrument (Kammermusik Nos. I.—VI.) .
See F. Wilms, "Paul Hindemith," in Von newer Musik (1925) ; Heinrich Strobel, Paul Hindemith (1928) .