Three Easy Pieces for cello and piano 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.
As with many of his chamber works, Hindemith completed his ''Three Easy Pieces'' (1917) for cello and piano quickly and effortlessly while imbuing it with substance, craft, and imagination. Unusually for his output at the time, it was not written with a virtuoso in mind, but for a student. These short, but intelligent and substantive pieces make excellent additions to the library of an enterprising intermediate-level player.
