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
Thin Air : Version for orchestra / Calliope Tsoupaki
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
2fl 2ob 2cl 2fg 4h 2tpt 2trb tb str
Metamorphosis 4-6-2-1 : orchestra, 1976 / Benjamin Ashkenazy
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
2232 4330 2perc 2hp pf str
Deus ex machina : for orchestra, 1998 / Ron Ford
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
3333 8331 3perc 2hp str
composition
Overture : for orchestra / Rosy Wertheim
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.