The chamber music works are among Hindemith's most successful instrumental works of the 1920s. At the world premiere of Chamber Music No. 1, the audience even demanded a repetition of the third and fourth movements. But the title is misleading: The individual pieces rather have concertante soloistic features than bow to chamber music traditions. Not least the epithet Violin Concerto in the title of Chamber Music No. 4 refers to that fact.
