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Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and instrument(s)
Scoring:
sopr/ten fl pf
Sinfonia : no II / Robert de Roos
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
3232 4331 timp perc hp str
Préludes: Premier livre : for orchestra / Claude Debussy / Luc Brewaeys
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
2fl fl-a(picc) 2ob eh 2cl cl-b 2fg cfg 4h 2tpt 2trb tb 3perc hp cel str
Passacaglia : for orchestra, 1945-1946 / Rudolf Escher
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
4444 2sax 4531 timp 4perc cel 2hp org str
composition
Variations on an Old Dutch Tune : 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.