composer
Leo Smit came from a mixed Sephardic Ashkenazi family. His father, Rephaël Smit, was a wealthy shoe merchant descending from the Ashkenazi Smit family. The other three grandparents, two of ...
related works
Divertimento : for piano four-hands / Leo Smit
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Piano 4 hands
Instruments:
pf4h
1. Sinfonia jubilata : 1975, per orchestra / Jo van den Booren
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Instruments:
4443 4431 timp 3perc hp str
Douze préludes : deuxième livre, pour orchestre, 1913/1972 / Debussy, Henkemans
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Instruments:
4333 4431 timp 6perc 2hp str
Sinfonia: Luci nella notte : for orchestra / Andrzej Kwiecinski
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Instruments:
3fl 3ob 3cl 3fg 4h 3trp 3trb perc 2pf str
composition
Suite : for orchestra / Leo Smit; free arrangement and orchestration by Godefroid Devreese and Bob Zimmerman
Other authors:
Devreese, Godefroid
(orchestrator)
Zimmerman, Bob
(orchestrator)
Contains:
Prélude (c. 3‘): Bob Zimmerman
Forlane (c. 3‘): Godefroid Devreese
Rondeau (c. 4’15"): Godefroid Devreese
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.