composer
Leo Smit came from a mixed Sephardic Ashkenazi family. His father, Rephaël Smit, was a wealthy shoe merchant descending from the Ashkenazi Smit family. The other three grandparents, two of ...
related works
Divertimento : for piano four-hands / Leo Smit
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Piano 4 hands
Instruments:
pf4h
Tema con variazioni : pour piano à quatre mains, 1952 / Herman Strategier
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Piano 4 hands
Instruments:
pf4h
Valses sentimentales : voor piano vierhandig, opus 21, 1944 / Marius Flothuis
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Piano 4 hands
Instruments:
pf4h
Fantasie : piano à quatre mains, 1962 / Jurriaan Andriessen
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Piano 4 hands
Instruments:
pf4h
composition
Divertimento : for piano four-hands / Leo Smit
Other authors:
Leo Smit Stichting
(curator)
Contains:
Allegro ma non troppo
Lento
Allegro con fuoco
Description:
The series 'Forbidden Music Regained' proudly presents works by composers who were persecuted during the Second World War. Performances of these works were forbidden during the war. Many composers were imprisoned, several did not survive and others went into hiding.
After the war a new generation took over. The pre-war composers were soon forgotten and their compositions remained hidden in closets and archives or fell otherwise into oblivion. In recent decades numerous works have been rediscovered through the efforts of the Leo Smit Foundation. Some scores were found in attics, others in a garden shed and a pile of music was found by young children next to a garbage can. These compositions are of a high quality and deserve to be performed again. The diversity of styles represents the entire spectrum of the first half of the Twentieth century: romanticism, impressionism, modernism, neoclassicism, jazz, and so forth. This project aims to encourage musicians, young and old, from across the globe to perform these compositions, and for concert audiences to (once again) become acquainted with this ‘unheard’ music.