related works
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and instrument(s)
Scoring:
sopr vl/vc pf
Plutos-suite : 1952 / Ton de Leeuw
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
fl fl(pic) 2ob 2cl 2fg h 2trp timp 2perc str
... e mi sovvien... (Ciclo dell' Infinito, terza parte) : Versione per orchestra / Diderik Wagenaar
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
picc 2fl(picc.fl-a) 2ob eh 2cl cl-b 4h 2tpt 2trb tb 2perc gt cimb 2hp cel pf str
Ricercare : orchestra, (1949) / Hendrik Andriessen
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
2fl fl(pic) 2ob 2cl 2fg 4h 3trp 3trb tb timp perc hp str
composition
Variations on an Old Dutch Tune : for orchestra / Rosy Wertheim
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.