composer
Rosy Wertheim was born on February 19, 1888 in Amsterdam and she died on May 27, 1949 in Laren.
After receiving a piano certificate from the Dutch Musicians' Society, she studied ...
related works
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and piano
Scoring:
zang pf
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
voice 1110 1000 pf harm str
Splinters : for soprano and orchestra / René Samson ; on a poem by Alissa Valles, 2009
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
sopr 2fl fl(pic) 2ob eh 2cl cl-b 2fg cfg 4h 3trp 2trb trb-b tb timp perc pf(cel) hp str
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
sopr 0000 0000 5perc str
composition
Die Insel der Vergessenheit : for voice and orchestra / Rosy Wertheim; words by Anna Ritter
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.