related works
Forbidden Music Regained : Volume 4
Genre:
Unknown
Symphony II : for orchestra, 1958, (revised version 1980) / Rudolf Escher
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
pic 2fl 2ob eh 2cl cl-b 2sax 4h 2trp tb timp 4perc 2hp pf str(14.14.12.10.8.)
Olof-suite : voor orkest, (1953) / Oscar van Hemel
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
2222 sax-t 4231 timp 2perc str
Monument 11 : voor orkest / Caroline Berkenbosch
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
2picc 2fl 3ob eh 3cl cl-b 2fg 2cfg 4h 3tpt 3trb tb-cb 5perc 3hp pf str
composition
Weense Wals : for orchestra / Julius Hijman
Other authors:
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.