related works
Trois Chansons : for flute, voice and harp or piano / Rosy Wertheim; text by Li-Tai-Po
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and instrument(s)
Scoring:
zang fl pf/hp
Der König in Thule : ballade voor alt en orkest, 1886 / Alphons Diepenbrock
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
alt 0222 4130 timp perc str
Black flowers : twelve songs for soprano and orchestra / Josef Malkin
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
sopr 2fl(pic, fl-a) cl cl-b 2fg timp perc hp cel pf str(10.8.6.6.5.)
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
sopr 2121 2200 perc cel vibr hp str(10.8.6.4.2-3.)
composition
Die Insel der Vergessenheit : for voice and orchestra / Rosy Wertheim; words by Anna Ritter
Other authors:
Leo Smit Stichting
(Partner)
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.