related works

Symphonic Poem : Suite from the opera Thijl / Jan van Gilse; arranged by Ed Spanjaard

Genre: Orchestra
Subgenre: Orchestra
Scoring: 3fl/picc 3ob/eh 4cl 2fg cfg 4h 4tpt 3trb tb timp 3perc hp pf str

Ritratto di una città : (Ouverture Den Haag), per orchestra / di Jurriaan Andriessen

Genre: Orchestra
Subgenre: Orchestra
Scoring: 2222 4330 timp perc str

Suite 'Leonce & Lena' : for orchestra / Robert (Bob) Hanf

Genre: Orchestra
Subgenre: Orchestra
Scoring: Orchestra

Episodes : for orchestra and adaptable ensemble / Tera de Marez Oyens

Genre: Orchestra
Subgenre: Orchestra
Scoring: 2fl 2ob 2cl 2fg 2h 2trp 2trb trb-b timp perc str variable ensemble

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.