Hindemith Days at the Academy of Music and the Performing Arts in Frankfurt am Main
Exhibition
"40 Years Hindemith Institute in Frankfurt – Archive Treasures"
The Hindemith Institute in Frankfurt will be celebrating its 40th anniversary this autumn. The great treasure of the Hindemith Institute consists of its extensive archive material. In the exhibition, which will open on 14 November, 6:00 PM in the Small Hall of the HfMDK, it will be possible to view several of the numerous documents from Hindemith's estate, including a sketchbook in which he crushed a flea as a soldier on the Front in 1918, and a music manuscript that was partially burned during the Second World War. In addition, pocket calendars, programmes, Hindemith's catalogues of works, letters, private photo albums, drawings and other documents will be shown, including curiosities such as the collection by the composer himself of erroneous spellings of his surname. In addition, various areas of the Institute's activities will be presented, including the work on the Hindemith Complete Edition which, in its historical-critical layout, has provided important stimuli for further complete editions of twentieth-century composers.
Prof. Dr. Susanne Popp, Managing Director of the Max Reger Institute in Karlsruhe, will deliver the ceremonial address on the occasion of the exhibition opening. The exhibition opening will be musically accompanied by students of the HfMDK.
The anniversary celebrations will begin on 13 November, 7:00 PM, with an opening concert with students of the HfMDK in the Karl Amadeus Hartmann Hall at Schott Music Publishers in Mainz.
On 16 November, 11:00 AM, as part of the concert series "Chamber Music in the Cowherds' Tower", Megumi Kasakawa (viola) and other members of the Ensemble Modern will perform works by Quincy Porter, Haruyuki Suzuki and Paul Hindemith.
On 16 November, 19:30 PM, there will be a festival concert with works of Hindemith in the Great Hall of the Music Academy, organised by students of the Music Academy under the direction of Gerhard Müller-Hornbach.
Students will be able to gain insight into the work of Paul Hindemith and of the Institute in two courses being offered during the winter semester 2014/15. At a seminar on 15 November 2014, 11:00 AM -3:00 PM, the music theoretician and composer Prof. Ernst-August Kloetzke and Dr. Luitgard Schader (edition director of the Hindemith Complete Edition) will pose the question "How Useful Is a Complete Edition for Artists?"
During the winter semester 2014/15 Prof. Gerhard Müller-Hornbach and Dr. Heinz-Jürgen Winkler (Hindemith Institute) will lead a seminar entitled "Between Composition, Music Theory and Instrumental Practice – Aspects of Paul Hindemith's 'The Craft of Musical Composition'".