related works
String Quartet / Henriette Bosmans
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
String quartet (2 violins, viola, cello)
Scoring:
2vl vla vc
2e Concert : voor viool met orkest-begeleiding / Sem Dresden
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Violin and orchestra
Scoring:
2123 3230 timp 2perc hp str vl-solo
Concerto no 2 : for violin and orchestra, 1978, (revised version 1981) / Hans Kox
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Violin and orchestra
Scoring:
0200 2000 str vl-solo
Ballade : for violin and orchestra / Julius Röntgen
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Violin and orchestra
Scoring:
2fl 2ob 2cl 2fg 4h 2trp timp hp cel str vl-solo
composition
Concert Piece : for violin 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.