related works
Forbidden Music Regained : Volume 3
Genre:
Unknown
Concertino : voor orkest en jazz-quintet / Otto Ketting
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
3222 2200 timp perc pf str jazz-quintet: sax-t trp drums pf cb
Langsam : for symphony orchestra / Victoria Poleva
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
picc 2fl 2ob eh 2cl cl-b 2fg cfg 4h 3tpt 3trb tb hp perc timp str
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
3343 5431 timp 4perc cel 2hp str(16.14.12.10.8.)
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.