composer
Sem Dresden was born on April 20, 1881 in Amsterdam and died on July 30, 1957 in The Hague.
He studied violin and piano with Richard Hageman, violin with Dudok and ...
related works
Forbidden Music Regained : Volume 1
Genre:
Unknown
Sextuor : pour instruments à vent et piano / Robert de Roos
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Wind Sextet (wind quintet and piano)
Scoring:
fl ob cl fg h pf
Sextet no. 4 : fluit, hobo, klarinet, fagot, hoorn, piano, 1960 / Hans Kox
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Wind Sextet (wind quintet and piano)
Scoring:
fl ob cl fg h pf
Suite : for wind quintet and piano / Sem Dresden
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Wind Sextet (wind quintet and piano)
Scoring:
fl ob cl fg hn pf
composition
Suite : for wind quintet and piano, after Rameau / Sem Dresden
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.