related works
Divertimento : for piano four-hands / Leo Smit
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Piano 4 hands
Scoring:
pf4h
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
1232 3000 timp perc hp str
Symphonic Music I : for orchestra / Luc Van Hove
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
3fl/picc 3ob/eh 3cl 2fg cfg 4h 3tpt 3trb tb timp 2perc cel hp str
Entropie : voor orkest / Xander Hunfeld
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
2fl fl-a 3ob(eh) 3cl 3fg 4h 3tpt 3trb tb perc str
composition
Suite : for orchestra / Leo Smit; free arrangement and orchestration by Godefroid Devreese and Bob Zimmerman
Other authors:
Devreese, Godefroid
(Orchestrator)
Leo Smit Stichting
(Curator)
Zimmerman, Bob
(Orchestrator)
Smit, Leo
(Composer)
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.