composer
Bob Hanf was born in Amsterdam on November 25, 1894. His parents Joseph Hanf and Laura Romberg, assimilated German Jews, were originally from Westphalia and had settled shortly after their ...
related works
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and instrument(s)
Scoring:
ten 2nl vla vc
Mascarade : for orchestra / Frédéric Devreese
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
2fl(picc) 2ob 2cl 2fg 4h 3tpt 3trb tb perc pf str
Usher symphony : op. 29, 1968-1970 / W.F. Bon
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
3333 2sax 4431 4perc hp pf cemb str
Ouvertüre : for orchestra / Fré Focke
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
pic 2fl 2ob 2cl sax-a 2fg cfg 3h 3trp 3trb tb timp xyl cel perc 2vl vla vc cb
composition
Serenade : for orchestra / Robert (Bob) Hanf
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.