In 1922, some of his pieces were played in the International Society for Contemporary Music festival at Salzburg, which first brought him to the attention of an international audience. Reminiscent of Bach's Brandenburg Concertos, they include works with viola and viola d'amore as solo instruments in a neo-Bachian spirit. Īs a composer, he became a major advocate of the Neue Sachlichkeit (new objectivity) style of music in the 1920s, with compositions such as Kammermusik. In 1921, he founded the Amar Quartet, playing viola, and extensively toured Europe.
After the armistice he returned to Frankfurt and the Rebner Quartet. In May 1918 he was deployed to the front in Flanders, where he served as a sentry his diary has him "surviving grenade attacks only by good luck", according to New Grove Dictionary. There he was assigned to play bass drum in the regiment band and also formed a string quartet. Hindemith was conscripted into the Imperial German Army in September 1917 and sent to join his regiment in Alsace in January 1918. He played second violin in the Rebner String Quartet from 1914. He became deputy leader of the Frankfurt Opera Orchestra in 1914 and was promoted to concertmaster in 1916. At first he supported himself by playing in dance bands and musical-comedy groups. Hoch's Konservatorium, where he studied violin with Adolf Rebner, as well as conducting and composition with Arnold Mendelssohn and Bernhard Sekles. Hindemith was born in Hanau, near Frankfurt, the eldest child of the painter and decorator Robert Hindemith from Lower Silesia and his wife Marie Hindemith, née Warnecke.
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