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Paul Hindemith und die neue Welt: Studien zur amerikanischen Hindemith-Rezeption. By Rudiger Jennert. (Wurzburger Musikhistoriche Beitrage, Bd. 26.) Tutzing: Hans Schneider, 2005. [346 p. ISBN 3-7952-1181-6. [euro]68.] Music examples, index, bibliography, CD-ROM.
In recent years, research publication on Paul Hindemith has mainly been the province of German authors. A small number of English-language dissertations and journal articles have appeared, but representation in issues of the Paul-Hindemith-Jahrbuch since 1998 (when papers from the 1995 Yale centenary conference were published) has sunk to almost none. There are exceptions, to be sure, principal among them being Stephen Luttman's excellent and long-needed research handbook (Paul Hindemith: A Guide to Research [New York: Routledge, 2005]) and Claire Taylor-Jay's savvy study of Weimar-era opera (The Artist-Operas of Pfitzner, Krenek, and Hindemith: Politics and the Ideology of the Artist [Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2004]).
Perhaps it is not surprising, under the circumstances, that the first extended documentary study of the reception of Hindemith's music in the United States should take the form of a German doctoral dissertation. Jennert did his work under the supervision of Ulrich Konrad (Wurzburg), with...
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