related works
Forbidden Music Regained : Volume 5
Genre:
Unknown
Symphonie concertante : voor orkest, 1962 / door Hendrik Andriessen
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
3322 4331 timp hp str
Rito : musica per una coreografia immaginario, per orchestra, 1979, (revisione 1981) / Wim Laman
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
2232 2221 3perc hp str(8.8.6.4.4.)
Oud-Nederlandsche Dansen : voor orkest, opus 46 / Julius Röntgen
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
2fl 2ob 2fg 4h 2trp timp t 2vl vla vc cb
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.