related works
Forbidden Music Regained : Volume 2
Genre:
Unknown
De bijen : orchestra, 1964 / Ton de Leeuw
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
2fl fl(pic) 3ob 3cl 3fg 4h 3trp 3trb tb 3perc hp str
Homage to Gershwin : voor groot orkest / Jan Koetsier
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
3333 4331 timp 4perc cel hp str (pf-solo in 1 en 3)
Paraphrase "Onder Moeders Parapluie" : for orchestra / Cornelis Dopper
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
2fl(picc) 2ob 2cl 2fg 4h 2tpt triangle str
composition
Sept Poèmes : for small orchestra / Hans Lachman
Author(s):
Leo Smit Stichting
(Partner)
Lachman, Hans
(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.