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
Liederen op Zuid-Afrikaanse tekst : voor hoge stem en piano, 1966 / Wolfgang Wijdeveld
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and piano
Scoring:
high pf
Neuf mélodies : opus 65, pour soprano et piano, (1973) / Léon Orthel; tekst: Rainer Maria Rilke
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and piano
Scoring:
sopr pf
Drei Lieder : für Gesang und Klavier / [Text] von R.M. Rilke, Henri Zagwijn
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and piano
Scoring:
sopr-m/alt pf
composition
Vier Lieder : for voice and piano / Rosy Wertheim; words by Anna Ritter and Schüler
Other authors:
Wertheim, Rosy
(Composer)
Contains:
Er rausch und rauscht (c. 2’30”)
De Insel der Vergessenheit (c. 3’)
Abendgebet (c. 1’45”)
Es fiel ein Reif (c. 1’30”)
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.