related works
Forbidden Music Regained : Volume 4
Genre:
Unknown
Three preludes : for orchestra, 1993-1994 / Tristan Keuris
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
fl 2fl(pic) 2ob eh 3cl cl-b 2fg cfg 4h 3trp 3trb tb timp 3perc hp str(14.12.10.8.8.)
Scherzo : for symphony orchestra, 2004 / Kees Olthuis
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
3333 4331 timp 4perc str
Confused winds : for windinstruments, percussion and strings, (1972) / Geert van Keulen
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
2233 sax-a 4221 perc str(vl vc cb)
composition
Variaties over een St. Nikolaasliedje : for small orchestra / Jan van Gilse
Other authors:
Gilse, Jan van
(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.