related works
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Mixed choir and orchestra
Scoring:
sopr-solo ten-solo GK 3fl 3ob 4cl 2fg cfg 4h 4tpt 3trb tb 4timp 3perc pf 2hp str
Symphony : 'Sinfonia Cosmologica' / Bernard Benoliel
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
4fl/picc 2ob 3eh 2cl 2cl-b 3fg dfg 4h 4wagner 3tpt tpt-b 2trb-ten 2trb-b tb 2timp perc str
Against odds : opus 35, for orchestra, 1988 / Leo Samama
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
2222 4231 4perc str
Deus ex machina : for orchestra, 1998 / Ron Ford
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
3333 8331 3perc 2hp str
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.