related works
Forbidden Music Regained : Volume 4
Genre:
Unknown
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
2222 4230 timp str
Himmelen : = The Heaven, from "A cycle of the North", for orchestra / Klas Torstensson
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
picc (fl) 2fl 2ob CA 2cl Bcl 2bsn cbsn 4hrn 3trp 3trb tba synth hp perc timp str
Sfumatura : voor kamerorkest, 2006 / Kees Arntzen
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
composition
Variaties over een St. Nikolaasliedje : for small orchestra / Jan van Gilse
Other authors:
Leo Smit Stichting
(Partner)
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.