composer
Theodore Henri Smit Sibinga was born in Bandung and still a toddler when his family returned to the Netherlands. After high school, he started cello lessons with Bertrand Drilsma and ...
related works
Forbidden Music Regained : Volume 4
Genre:
Unknown
Duo's : 1961, voor twee violen / Will Eisma
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Violin
Scoring:
2vl
Pedaal : violin solo, 1982 / Klas Torstensson
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Violin
Scoring:
vl (ampl.)
Study for two violins : (rhythmic patterns), 1960 / Rudolf Escher
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Violin
Scoring:
2vl
composition
Balata : for violin / Theo Smit Sibinga
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.