related works
Strijkkwartet : (1922 - onvoltooid) / [red. Hans van Dijk], Jan van Gilse
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
String quartet (2 violins, viola, cello)
Scoring:
2vl vla vc
Mogadon : voor orkest, 1985 / Chiel Meijering
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
2222 4231 4perc hp pf str
Sinfonia sacra : in memoriam patris, [1948] / Guillaume Landré
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
3332 4331 timp perc hp str
Symfonie : in e kleine terts, voor orkest / Sas Bunge
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
2222 4231 timp str
composition
Variaties over een St. Nikolaasliedje : for small orchestra / Jan van Gilse
Author(s):
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.