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  Paul Hindemith Information - TextSheet.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
Born in Hanau, Hindemith was taught the violin as a child, but his parents objected to his musical ambitions, and he left home at the age of eleven as a result.
He entered the Hoch Conservatoire in Frankfurt am Main where he studied conducting, composition and violin under Arnold Mendelssohn and Bernhard Sekles, supporting himself by playing in dance bands and musical-comedy outfits.
He led the Frankfurt Opera orchestra from 1915 to 1923 and played in the Rebner string quartet in 1921 in which he played second violin, and later the viola.
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 Encyclopedia: Paul Hindemith
He entered the Hochsche Konservatorium in Frankfurt am Main where he studied conducting, composition and violin under Arnold Mendelssohn and Bernhard Sekles, supporting himself by playing in dance bands and musical-comedy outfits.
Bernhard Sekles (* June 20, 1872 in Frankfurt am Main; â€; December 15, 1934) was a German composer and music teacher.
The foyer of Charles Garniers Opéra, Paris, opened 1875 Opera is an art form consisting of a dramatic stage performance set to music.
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 CONK! Encyclopedia: Theodor_Adorno   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
He attended the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gymnasium where he proved to be a highly gifted student: at the exceptionally early age of 17 he graduated from the Gymnasium at the top of his class.
In his free time he took private lessons in composition with Bernhard Sekles and read Kant's Critique of Pure Reason together with his friend Siegfried Kracauer - 14 years his elder - on Saturday afternoons.
Later he would proclaim that he owed more to these readings than to any of his academic teachers.
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 JAVS Online
His composition teacher was Arnold Mendelssohn, whose father had been a cousin of well known Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy.
After Arnold Mendelssohn's departure from Frankfurt (1913), Hindemith studied composition with Bernhard Sekles.
Sekles was of the opinion that free composition should be discouraged until the student mastered the technical means; therefore, he insisted that exercises (including fugues and chorales in strict four part counterpoint) should be written in the style of named classical composers.
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 music.html   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
The first musical adaptations were ballets: 1909 Vienna; premiere of a ballet to music by Franz Schreker; 1913 Brockhaus: premiere of a ballet on music by Bernhard Sekles and 1918 premieres of the ballets of Miklos Radnai in Budapest and John Alden Carpenter in Chicago.
Bernhard Sekles worked as conductor in different locations.
Sekles was the composition teacher of Paul Hindemith.
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 Max Rudolf (Conductor) - Short Biography
The eminent German-born American conductor, renowned teacher and recognized musicologist, Max Rudolf, began his musical training at the age of seven.
He studied cello with Maurits Frank, piano with Eduard Jung, and composition with Bernhard Sekles, and also learned to play the organ and the trumpet.
In 1921-1922 he attended the University of Frankfurt am Main.
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 Composers - Hindemith, Paul   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
Paul Hindemith was born in Hanau on 16 November 1895.
He studied at the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt/Main violin and composition with Adolf Rebner, Arnold Mendelssohn, Bernhard Sekles and Fritz Bassermann.
At the age of 20 he became first violin of the Frankfurt Opera Orchestra.
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 Arbiter 138: Hindemith as Interpreter -- The Amar-Hindemith Quartet
In 1912 he entered Arnold Mendelssohn's composition class and when that beloved teacher moved on in 1913, he transferred to Bernhard Sekles.
Of course his studies included writing string quartets and this most sophisticated of musical forms played an ever larger role in his life as both composer and performer.
Then there were such pieces as Ravel's Duo Sonata for violin and cello, Kodály's Serenade for two violins and viola and various piano quartets, as well as piano quintets and string quintets.
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 Octet . Felix Mendelssohn . Paul Hindemith
Hindemith was taught the violin as a child, but his parents objected to his musical ambitions, and he left home at the age of eleven as a result.
He entered the Hoch Conservatoire in Frankfurt am Main where he studied Conducting conducting, composition and violin under Arnold Mendelssohn and Bernhard Sekles,...
New Ross is a town located in Montgomery County, Indiana.
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 MSS 47, The Paul Hindemith Collection in the Irving S. Gilmore Music Library of Yale University.
As a teenager he was already a professional string quartet performer and soon became leader of the Frankfurt Opera orchestra, under the direction of Ludwig Rottenberg, whose daughter, Gertrud, later became Mrs.
Hindemith studied composition under Bernhard Sekles and Arnold Mendelssohn and soon established himself at the forefront of the post World War I avant-garde.
When the Nazis came to power in the 1930s, his music was banned, but not before he was firmly established as a distinguished teacher of composition at the Berlin Hochschule.
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 Composer [Leo Rosenblüth] / SMIC
Born on 11th January 1904 in Fürth, Germany.
He studied at the University of Frankfurt am Main (theory of music, philosophy, religion) and Hochsches Musikkonservatorium (composition and orchestration with Bernhard Sekles), as well as being taught singing by Nikolaus Naumov Fleischmann.
He worked as a kantor in Germany and Switzerland from the age of 13 onwards.
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 The Dialectical Imagination. Martin Jay 1973   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
Her unmarried sister, who lived in the Wiesengrund household, was a concert pianist of considerable accomplishment who played for the famous singer Adelina Patti.
With their encouragement the young “Teddie” took up the piano and studied composition at an early age, under the tutelage of Bernhard Sekles.
Frankfurt, however, offered little beyond traditional musical training, and Adorno was anxious to immerse himself in the more innovative music issuing at that time from Vienna.
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 Biographie: Paul Hindemith, 1895-1963
Lebensjahr privaten Musikunterricht erhalten hat, wird auf Empfehlung seines Violinlehrers Adolph Rebner (1876-1967) in das Hochsche Konservatorium in Frankfurt aufgenommen.
Neben dem Violinenunterricht erfolgt unter Arnold Ludwig Mendelssohn (1855-1933), später unter Bernhard Sekles (1872-1934) eine Komponistenausbildung am Konservatorium.
Hindemith hat die Stelle des Konzertmeisters am Frankfurter Opernhaus inne.
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 Essays on Music: INTRODUCTION
By the late 1920s Adorno was also acquainted with a number of other heterodox Marxists, including Ernst Bloch, Bertolt Brecht, Herbert Marcuse, and Kurt Weill.
As an adolescent, Adorno's musical training included piano lessons from Bernhard Sekles, also the teacher of Hindemith.
As a young man he seriously entertained the possibility of a career as a composer and concert pianist.
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So - due to this opposition - Paul left his home at the age of eleven firmly decided upon a musical career.
After making his living in cafés and different dance bands he entered Dr. Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt where he became a pupil of Arnold Mendelssohn (a half cousin to Felix 1855-1933) and Bernhard Sekles (1872-1934) - the latter also became teacher for Paul's 5 year younger brother Rudolf, who played the cello.
In 1915 he was appointed leader and conductor of the Frankfurt Opera Orchestra where he stayed for eight years.
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 kritische musik: Die Geburt der Anarchie aus dem Geist der Einsamkeit oder: Ist wirklich alles möglich?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
In der Person Adornos schneiden sich die modernen Entwicklungen der neuen Musik.
Einst in Frankfurt Kompositionschüler von Bernhard Sekles, und vertraut mit dem „Frankfurter Expressionismus" in dessen Kreis Hindemith gehörte, später kurzfristig Schüler Alban Bergs und damit am Rande mit dem Schönberg-Kreis vertraut.
Dort lernte er auch Hanns Eisler kennen für dessen politischen Anspruch er Sympathien hegte, dessen Funktionalisierungsthese er aber für problemtisch hält. Adorno kritisiert den Expressionismus aus einer anderen Richtung.
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 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
Adorno erhält das Reifezeugnis, verläßt mit siebzehn Jahren das Gymnasium als Jahrgangsbester und immatrikuliert sich an der Universität Frankfurt am Main.
Er setzt am Hoch'schen Konservatorium das Studium der schon zu Schulzeiten begonnenen Kompositionslehre bei Bernhard Sekles und den Klavierunterricht bei Eduard Jung fort.
Studium der Philosophie, Psychologie, Soziologie und Musikwissenschaft in Frankfurt am Main, u.
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