Mathis der Maler (Matthias the Painter) was Paul Hindemith’s masterpiece and artistic manifesto. In it he uses episodes from the life of the painter Matthias Grünewald (c. 1475 – 1530), the creator of ...

A 2012 production of Paul Hindemith's opera "Mathis der Maler" at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna Austria directed by Keith Warner with set design by Johan Engels. Hindemith created a suite of music ...

The New York City Opera and its enterprising director and principal conductor, Christopher Keene, deserve our congratulations for temerariously opening the new season with Paul Hindemith’s Mathis der ...

It has been 20 years since the Chicago Symphony Orchestra performed Paul Hindemith’s “Mathis der Maler” Symphony, too long considering the stature of the piece but perhaps not surprising considering ...

In the summer of 1934 Germany’s Nazi Kulturkammer (Chamber of Culture), enraged by a much-publicized performance of Paul Hindemith’s modernistic, juiceless, but adept suite, Mathis der Maler, declared ...

What's the greatest inspiration for a composer? Politics, of course. We join JoAnn Falletta and the Buffalo Philharmonic in Buffalo for some politically-charged German orchestral music. Falletta leads ...

PARIS—Maybe it's because Paul Hindemith's 1938 opera "Mathis der Maler" (Mathis the Painter) is rarely performed that director Olivier Py decided to pull out all the stops when he got what may be a ...

German-born Composer Paul Hindemith, 61, and French-born Composer Darius Milhaud, 65, both of whom have lived and taught in the U.S. for long stretches, are furiously prolific writers of serious music ...

Five Jewish protégés of the great composer, while he was Yale, have their moment in the spotlight. If, as Shakespeare famously wrote, every man in his time plays many parts, it should come as no ...