related works
String Quartet / Henriette Bosmans
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
String quartet (2 violins, viola, cello)
Scoring:
2vl vla vc
Concertino : pour violoncelle et orchestre / Leo Smit
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Cello and orchestra
Scoring:
1111 1100 timp str vc-solo
Opus A : voor symfonie-orkest en 8 concerterende celli, 1953 / Ary Verhaar
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Cello and orchestra
Scoring:
2222 4230 timp perc hp str 8vc-solo
Romance et Allegro : pour violoncelle et orchestre, op. 16 / Géza Frid
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Cello and orchestra
Scoring:
2222 3200 timp perc str vc-solo
composition
First Concerto : for cello and orchestra / Henriëtte Bosmans
Other authors:
Leo Smit Stichting
(Partner)
Rudi Marinus van Dijk Foundation
(Partner)
Bosmans, Henriëtte
(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.