Admittedly Brahms and Reger had sometimes published chamber works in pairs, but by encompassing such a large number of fair-sized works Hindemith was going back to the examples of Haydn or even J S Bach, providing a collection from which performers might choose. At that time it was an almost unheard-of gesture to group together so many works as subdivisions of a single opus, and it indicated Hindemith’s desire to put away Romantic attitudes, such as the idea that every composition was a complete and utterly separate work of art. The Violin Sonata in E flat major, Op 11 No 1, is the first of a group of six stringed-instrument sonatas which Hindemith began in 1918, while still serving in the German army on the Western Front, and published together as his opus 11.
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