related works
Forbidden Music Regained : Volume 5
Genre:
Unknown
Five poems by Emily Dickinson : for soprano and string orchestra / Marijn Simons
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
sopr str
Des Vagabunden ewiges Lied : for voice and orchestra / Ignace Lilien
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
ten/bar orch
Mignon : ballade voor alt en orkest, 1884 / Alphons Diepenbrock
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
alt 0232 4000 str(vl vla vc)
composition
Er rauscht und rauscht : for voice and orchestra / Rosy Wertheim; words by Anna Ritter
Other authors:
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.