related works
3 Gedichte von Richard Dehmel : für eine hohe Singstimme und Klavierbegleitung, 1902 / Jan van Gilse
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and piano
Scoring:
high pf
Da uno spazio bianco : for orchestra / Giuliano Bracci
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
fl fl(pic) 2ob 2cl 2fg 2h 2trp 2trb trb tb perc hp str
Feest : voor orkest / Benno Torrenga
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
3333 4231 timp perc str
Shunyata : for small orchestra / David Little
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
2222 0000 perc pf str
composition
Symphonic Poem : Suite from the opera Thijl / Jan van Gilse; arranged by Ed Spanjaard
Other authors:
Leo Smit Stichting
(Partner)
Spanjaard, Ed
(Orchestrator)
Gilse, Jan van
(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.