Franz Reizenstein (piano)
This is the first of three recitals that will include Hindemith's three piano sonatas. They were written in 1936, and the first performances in this country were given shortly afterwards by Franz Reizenstein. At about this time Hindemith was obliged to leave Germany, and the first sonatta bears a quotation from Holderlin's poem Der Main in which the poet declared that however far he wandered from his home-land he would never forget the r.ver Main, by whose banks he had spent so many happy hours. The th:rd sonata is in four movements, the last being a Fugue. D.C.