Sonata for Cello and Piano, Op.11, No. 3 by Paul Hindemith
Published by Schott
Both as violist and composer, Paul Hindemith (1895-1963) was thoroughly involved with contemporary music--he was a leading exponent of New Objectivity and neoclassical styles, and was much in demand as a soloist, premiering, among other works, Walton's Viola Concerto. During the rise of fascism in Germany, he emigrated to the United States, where he became a much-respected pedagogue.
Hindemith has a strong musical legacy for string players, with several concertos and many more sonatas and other chamber music to his name. His Op.11 collection of six sonatas contains several for violin and viola with or without piano, but just one for cello and piano: No. 3. He completed many of the sonatas while serving on the Western Front during World War I, but the cello sonata, completed just afterward in 1919, is the longest and most serious response to the conflict of the six sonatas. Filled with nervous, frenetic energy, relentless chromaticism, and cacophonous dissonance, it is a powerful expression of the horrors of war and a significant entry in Hindemith's chamber output. For advanced players
