related works
Forbidden Music Regained : Volume 2
Genre:
Unknown
3e symphonie : (in één deel), 1938-39 / Bertus van Lier
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
3343 4331 timp 2-3perc 1-2hp str
Ouverture Gijsbrecht van Aemstel : voor orkest / Johannes Verhulst
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
picc 2fl 2ob 2cl 2fg 4h 2trp 3trb timp perc str
Tritogno : variaties voor amateur/jeugd- symfonieorkest, 1982 / Jurriaan Andriessen
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
4221 2210 timp perc hp/pf 1-2hp str(vl vc (cb ad lib.))
composition
Overture : for orchestra / Rosy Wertheim
Author(s):
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.