related works

Forbidden Music Regained : Volume 1

Genre: Unknown

Album di disegni : per orchestra, opus 81, 1976/77 / Léon Orthel

Genre: Orchestra
Subgenre: Orchestra
Scoring: 3332 4330 timp 1-2perc cel hp pf str

Tempest : for orchestra / Gerard Beljon

Genre: Orchestra
Subgenre: Orchestra
Scoring: 2232 2321 2 perc timp hrp str

Komm! Hebe dich… (Symphony N° 2) : for large orchestra / Luc Brewaeys

Genre: Orchestra
Subgenre: Orchestra
Scoring: 4fl(picc) 4ob(eh) 4cl 4fg(cfg) 6h 4tpt 3trb tb 6perc 2hp pf str

composition

Serenade : for orchestra / Robert (Bob) Hanf

Author(s):
Leo Smit Stichting (Partner)
Hanf, Robert (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.