composer
Julius Hijman was born on January 25, 1901 in Almelo, at that time a town with a prosperous textile industry. His Jewish parents, the physician Leopold Hijman and Catherina ...
related works
Forbidden Music Regained : Volume 1
Genre:
Unknown
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and piano
Scoring:
bar pf
Le diable dans la nuit : for voice and piano / Henriëtte Bosmans; words by Paul Fort
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and piano
Scoring:
zang pf
Lentezang : for voice and piano / Sem Dresden; words by A.C.W.Staring
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and piano
Scoring:
zang pf
composition
Five Songs : for voice and piano / Julius Hijman; words by Adriaan Roland Holst
Contains:
Goden en zangers
De verlatene
Van een kind
De eenzelvige
Naroep
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.