related works
Strijksextet / Robert (Bob) Hanf
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Mixed ensemble (2-12 players)
Scoring:
2vl 2vla 2vc
Une musique blanche : pour orchestre, 1980/82 / Simeon ten Holt
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
3333 3sax 3330 6perc hp el.org pf str(12.6.4.4.)
The Zombies Awake : for chamber orchestra / Chiel Meijering
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
2picc 2fl 2ob 2cl perc pf hp str
Divertimento : op. 27, 1944 / Jan Koetsier
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
1121 2200 timp str
composition
Serenade : for orchestra / Robert (Bob) Hanf
Other authors:
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.