Rudolf Hindemith

Rudolf Hindemith, since 1951 officially Paul Quest, pseudonym Hans Lofer[1] (9 January 1900 – 7 October 1974) was a German cellist, composer and conductor.

From 1921 to 1924, he served in the same function in the orchestra of the Vienna State Opera, with conductors including Richard  Strauss and Franz  Schalk.

[1] The Hindemith brothers played in the Amar Quartet, one of the leading groups of the contemporary music scene of the 1920s, with Paul as violist and Rudolf as cellist.

[2] In 1958, his opera Des Kaisers neue Kleider after Andersen's The Emperor's New Clothes was premiered in Bremen, conducted by George Alexander Albrecht who had studied with Lofer without knowing his identity.

Soloist Kolja Lessing and the Bremer Philharmoniker conducted by George Alexander Albrecht played the original work in five movements.