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Symphonie "Mathis der Maler"

composer: Paul Hindemith

Premiere: 12. März 1934 Berlin · Berliner Philharmonisches Orchester · Dirigent: Wilhelm Furtwängler
Instrumentation: orchestra
Orchestra instrumentation: 2 (2. auch Picc.) · 2 · 2 · 2 - 4 · 2 · 3 · 1 - P. S. (Glsp. · Trgl. · 2 hg. Beck. · Beckenpaar · Tamb. · kl. Tr. · gr. Tr.) (3 Spieler) - Str.
Duration: 27' 0''
Year of composition: 1933 - 1934
Edition: full score
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Description:

Hindemith was at first sceptical about turning the life of the 16th-century-painter Matthias Gruenewald into an opera, but he skilfully interwove the artist’s biography with the social and religious battles of the time of the Peasants’ War into his libretto. Mathis’ struggle for artistic autonomy has often been interpreted as an expression of Hindemith’s own situation in National Socialist Germany. While he worked on the opera he was commissioned by Wilhelm Furtwängler and the Berlin Philharmonic Opera to write an orchestral work. Three of the orchestral interludes form this Symphony – one of his most stunning compositions.


Content:

I Engelkonzert - II Grablegung - III Versuchung des heiligen Antonius




Performances:
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10.07.2008

Collegium Musicum der RWTH Aachen - Hub. Pittie Kirche St. Michael - Aachen - Germany

12.07.2008

Collegium Musicum der RWTH Aachen - Hub. Pittie Kirche St. Michael - Aachen - Germany

22.07.2008 - Herrenchiemsee Festspiele 2008

Münchner Rundfunkorchester - Henry Raudales Spiegelsaal - Schloss Herrenchiemsee - Germany

12.09.2008 - Gergiev Festival Rotterdam 2008

Rotterdams Philharmonisch Orkest - Valery Gergiev de Doelen, Grote Zaal - Rotterdam - Netherlands

30.09.2008 - Prague Autumn Festival 2008

Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra - Christian Mandeal Rudolfinum - Praha - Czech Republic

29.10.2008

Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich - David Zinman Tonhalle, Grosser Saal - Zürich - Switzerland

31.10.2008

Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich - David Zinman Tonhalle, Grosser Saal - Zürich - Switzerland

11.12.2008

Odense Symfoniorkester - Alexander Vedernikov Koncerthus, Carl Nielsen Salen - Odense - Denmark

18.02.2009

hr-Sinfonieorchester - Paavo Järvi Alte Oper, Großer Saal - Frankfurt/Main - Germany

19.02.2009

hr-Sinfonieorchester - Paavo Järvi Alte Oper, Großer Saal - Frankfurt/Main - Germany

20.02.2009

hr-Sinfonieorchester - Paavo Järvi Alte Oper, Großer Saal - Frankfurt/Main - Germany

08.04.2009

Philharmonisches Orchester Altenburg-Gera - Roger Epple Konzertsaal - Gera - Germany

09.04.2009

Philharmonisches Orchester Altenburg-Gera - Roger Epple Konzertsaal - Gera - Germany

10.04.2009

Philharmonisches Orchester Altenburg-Gera - Roger Epple Landestheater, Großes Haus - Altenburg - Germany

12.06.2009

Dresdner Philharmonie - Hans Graf Kulturpalast, Festsaal - Dresden - Germany

13.06.2009

Dresdner Philharmonie - Hans Graf Kulturpalast, Festsaal - Dresden - Germany

14.06.2009

Dresdner Philharmonie - Hans Graf Kulturpalast, Festsaal - Dresden - Germany


Other editions:
ED 3286 = Klavierauszug (4 hd.)
ETP 573 = Studienpartitur


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