Subasta Bidspirit | HINDEMITH PAUL: (1895-1963)

HINDEMITH PAUL: (1895-1963) - HINDEMITH PAUL: (1895-1963) German composer and conductor. A.L.S., with his initials P. H. , to the recto of his personal printed oblong 12mo Visiting Card, n.p., 16th December 1934, to Siegfried Borris, in German. Hindemith states that his correspondent has unfortunately taken a trip in vain and that they did not know how to reach him, explaining that they will be absent for the whole day, and that tomorrow Hindemith will travel to London. VG Siegfried Borris (1906-1987) German composer and musicologist whose career, rather like that of Hindemith´s, was interrupted during the Nazi regime. In December 1934, the same month in which Hindemith wrote the present letter, Germany´s Minister of Propaganda, Joseph Goebbels, publicly denounced Hindemith as an ´atonal noisemaker´ during a speech at the Berlin Sports Palace.