composer
Jan van Gilse lived in Germany in the first years of the 20th century, and it was at this time that he wrote most of his compositions. He moved to ...
related works
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
sopr 2322 4330 timp perc cel hp str
Iowa-serenade : voor orkest, op. 56, 1981 / Jan Masséus
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
2221 2200 timp 2perc (cel ad lib.) str
Sinfonia sacra : in memoriam patris, [1948] / Guillaume Landré
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
3332 4331 timp perc hp str
Symphonie nr. 10 : 1961 / Henk Badings
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
pic 2fl 2ob ob(eh) 2cl cl-b 2fg 3h 2trp 3trb tb timp 2perc cel str
composition
Variaties over een St. Nikolaasliedje : for small orchestra / Jan van Gilse
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.