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    ...about his origins

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    from an interview with Hans Oelschläger, recorded Wiesbaden, April/May 1957, broadcast 06.08.1957 SWR

    ...about his beginnings as a professional musician

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    from an interview with Hans Oelschläger, recorded Wiesbaden, April/May 1957, broadcast 06.08.1957 SWR

    ...about Matthias Grünewald

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    from an interview with Hans Oelschläger, recorded Wiesbaden, April/May 1957, broadcast 06.08.1957 SWR

    ...about offers to return to Germany

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    Interview Montreal, 01.02.1946

    ...on the occasion of his first visit to post-war Germany

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    Interview with Heinz Schröter, recorded Frankfurt am Main, 03.06.1947, broadcast 14.07.1947 SDR

    ...reading a chapter from «A Composer's World»

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    recorded Cologne, 25.-29.03.1954 [Komponist in seiner Welt, Chapter »Erziehung«, p. 220s., early version of the german traduction of the english original]

    ...about the «Suite of French Dances»

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    Introduction to the performance of the work with Bremen Radio Orchestra, 15.11.1956

    ...about the opera «Harmonie der Welt»

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    from an interview with Hans Oelschläger, recorded Wiesbaden, April/May 1957, broadcast 06.08.1957 SWR

    ...recording of a rehearsal of «Symphonic Metamorphosis»

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    2nd movement: Scherzo, T. 1-64. Stockholm Concert Hall, 14.02.1952. Stockholms Filharmoniska Orkester

    ...about music

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    from the documentary "Paul Hindemith – Stationen seines Weges" ed. by Otfried Büthe and Winfried Kirsch with the cooperation of Gertrud Hindemith. First broadcast Hessischer Rundfunk, 15.11.1965

    ...about his origins

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    from an interview with Hans Oelschläger, recorded Wiesbaden, April/May 1957, broadcast 06.08.1957 SWR

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