related works

Forbidden Music Regained : Volume 2

Genre: Unknown

Almanach aux images : bariton, 9 instrumenten, 1976 / tekst: Tristan Klingsor, muziek: Kees Olthuis

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Voice and instrument(s)
Scoring: bar cl fg h pf 2vl vla vc cb

Aussagen : für Mezzo-Sopran mit Streichquartett / Hans Kox ; nach Texten von Prinz Claus von Amsberg

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Voice and instrument(s)
Scoring: sopr-m 2vl vla vc

Entelechie 2 : scènes voor 11 musici, opus 13, 1961 / Peter Schat

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Voice and instrument(s)
Scoring: sopr-m fl cl trp perc vibr hp pf vl vla vc

composition

Trois Chansons : for flute, voice and harp or piano / Rosy Wertheim; text by Li-Tai-Po

Other authors:
Li T'Ai Po (Text writer/Librettist)
Wertheim, Rosy (Composer)
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.