related works
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and instrument(s)
Scoring:
sopr vl/vc pf
Fünf tragische Lieder : für Bariton und Orchester / Geert van Keulen
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
bar 2fl 2ob eh 2cl cl-b 2fg 4h 2trp 3trb perc cel str
La bonne chanson : for voice and orchestra, 2001 / text: Paul Verlaine, Maarten van Norden
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
sopr-m 2130 sax-b 1431 drums perc g-b cemb pf str
Drie liederen : met orkestbegeleiding / door Willem Andriessen
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
sopr-m 2222 4200 timp str
composition
Er rauscht und rauscht : 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.