related works
Forbidden Music Regained : Volume 1
Genre:
Unknown
See-through : for orchestra, 2000, revision 2001 / Michel van der Aa
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
pic fl 2ob 2cl cl-b fg 4h 4trp 3trb tb 4perc hp str
Quasi niente : voor orkest, 1969-1970 / Jacques Reuland
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
3222 3330 timp perc str
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Large ensemble (12 or more players); Orchestra
Scoring:
1111 1111 2perc hp pf(cel) 2vl vla vc cb / str
composition
Symphony : 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.