related works

Divertimento : for piano four-hands / Leo Smit

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Piano 4 hands
Scoring: pf4h

Passacaglia : voor orkest / Otto Ketting

Genre: Orchestra
Subgenre: Orchestra
Scoring: 2222 sax-a 2210 timp perc str

Prelude II : per orchestra, 1975 / Jos van Amelsvoort

Genre: Orchestra
Subgenre: Orchestra
Scoring: 2332 4231 timp perc cel hp str

Windows : for orchestra, 1996 / Jan Rokus van Roosendael

Genre: Orchestra
Subgenre: Orchestra
Scoring: 2fl 2ob 2cl 2fg 2h 2trp 2trb 3perc hp pf 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.