BBC Radio 3 Composer of the Week: Paul Hindemith

Paul Hindemith’s life and works will be featured from June 9th – 13th on BBC Radio 3’s ‘Composer of the Week’.  The five programmes will explore Hindemith’s career from the First World War to his final years, including a performance of his best-known work, Symphonic Metamorphosis of Themes by C. M. von Weber, conducted by the composer himself.

Hindemith composed a wide repertoire of music, consisting of stage works, orchestral music, chamber music, solo-concertos, choral works and lieder.  Furthermore, as a musicologist, he wrote a number of books and essays.  In 1962, the year before his death, Hindemith was awarded the Balzan Prize for the magnitude of his work in contemporary music.

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