related works
Ricercar : for six trumpets and timpani / Julius Hijman
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Mixed ensemble (2-12 players)
Scoring:
6tr timp
Concerto : for string quartet and chamber orchestra / Mehdi Hosseini
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
2vn vla vc fl ob cl fg cfh 2h str
Noah : Symphonic poem for chamber orchestra / Christian Blaha
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
2fl 2ob 2cl 2fg 2h tpt timp perc str
Concerto : per percussione, celesta e strumenti a corda, opus 94 / Lex van Delden
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
0000 0000 timp perc vibr xyl cel hp pf str
composition
Weense Wals : for orchestra / Julius Hijman
Other authors:
Leo Smit Stichting
(Partner)
Hijman, Julius
(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.