related works
Strijksextet / Robert (Bob) Hanf
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Mixed ensemble (2-12 players)
Scoring:
2vl 2vla 2vc
Brabantse rapsodie : voor symfonie-orkest / Kees Schoonenbeek
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
3222 3331 3perc str
Suite II : (Ballet "Job") / Jan Pouwels
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
2222 3230 timp perc pf str
Autumn Refrain : for orchestra / Walter Hekster
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
fl eh 2cl 2trp cl-b fg cfg h trb tb 3perc hrp 12vl 8vla 6vc 3cb
composition
Symphony : for orchestra / Robert (Bob) Hanf
Other authors:
Leo Smit Stichting
(Curator)
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.