Hindemith Institute
The Hindemith Institute Frankfurt , founded in Frankfurt am Main in 1974 , is a musicological institute and center of Hindemith research. It looks after Paul Hindemith's estate and makes it accessible to the public. The archive holdings and the reference library of the institute are available on site after registration for academic work. The Hindemith Institute Frankfurt is an institution of the Hindemith Foundation based in Blonay (Switzerland).
history
After Hindemith's death in 1963, the composer's estate was kept in his last domicile, the Villa La Chance in Blonay . In 1974 the Hindemith Foundation set up the Hindemith Institute in Frankfurt am Main, which was initially housed in the Rothschild Palais on the Schaumainkai. After the Jewish Museum Frankfurt was built in the Palais, the institute moved to a floor in the premises of the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts after a stopover in Barckhausstraße .
Hindemith's most important documents are transcripts, sketches, manuscripts, autobiographical writings and correspondence, musical instruments, concert programs, radio recordings from the German Broadcasting Archive , music reviews, photos, his address book, documents, literary texts, caricatures and pictures.
activities
The institute is the edition headquarters of the historical-critical complete edition of his works and publishes and oversees the Hindemith yearbook, the Hindemith Forum newsletter and the Frankfurter Studien series. It organizes exhibitions, symposiums and lectures and holds a series of concerts in the Hindemith Kabinett in the Frankfurt Kuhhirtenturm , which was set up in 2011 as a memorial for the composer.
For Hindemith's birthday on November 16, concerts are held annually in cooperation with professors and students from the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts.
Exhibitions
- 2014: Ludwig Rottenberg (1864–1932). A life for the Frankfurt Opera
Directors
- Dieter Rexroth (1974–1991)
- Giselher Schubert (1991-2011)
- Susanne Schaal-Gotthardt (since 2011)
Hindemith Complete Edition
The musicologists Kurt von Fischer and Ludwig Finscher were the first to publish the Hindemith Complete Edition. After the death of Kurt von Fischer, Giselher Schubert acts as editor alongside Ludwig Finscher . 60 volumes are expected to be completed in 2025. They are published by Schott Music . Band Editors are u. a. Giselher Schubert, Annegrit Laubenthal , Christoph Wolff , Rudolf Stephan , Enjott Schneider , Arnold Werner-Jensen , Howard Boatwright , Stephen Hinton , Klaus Kropfinger , Peter Cahn , Hans Joachim Marx , Gerd Sannemüller , David Neumeyer , Hermann Danuser and Luther Noss . Giselher Schubert has been the editor of the Hindemith Complete Edition since 1974, together with Luitgard Schader since 2011 .
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