composer
Belinfante was born in the Amsterdam neighborhood Watergraafsmeer on March 6, 1893, the third child in a family of ten. From his father Aron, a diamond worker, and his uncle ...
related works
Forbidden Music Regained : Volume 2
Genre:
Unknown
Orkeststuk met piano : for piano and orchestra, 1915 / Willem Pijper
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Piano and orchestra
Instruments:
3232 4300 timp 2perc hp str pf-solo
Concerto : for piano and orchestra / Benjamin de Murashkin
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Piano and orchestra
Instruments:
pf-solo 2fl(picc) 2ob 2cl 2fg 4h 2tpt 2trb-t trb-b tb str
Concertino : für Klavier und Orchester / Fré Focke
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Piano and orchestra
Instruments:
pf pic 2fl 2ob eh 3cl cl-b sax-a 2fg cfg 4h 4trp 3trb tb timp perc 2vl vla vc cb
composition
Pianoconcertino : for piano and chamber orchestra / Daniël Belinfante
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.