related works
Drei Tanzskizzen : für Klavier und kleines Orchester / Jan van Gilse
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Piano and orchestra
Scoring:
pic fl ob eh 2cl fg 2h trp 3perc cel hp str(6.0.4.3.2.) pf-solo
Muziek : voor kamerorkest / Jan Koetsier
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
2222 2200 timp cemb str
Gardener of the stream : for orchestra, 2002 / Vanessa Lann
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
2fl fl(pic) 2fl-a 3ob 2eh 4cl cl-b 4fg cfg 8h 5trp 3trb 2tb 4perc str(16.14.12.10.8.)
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
2121 2110 perc cel hp str(8.8.6.6.6.)
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.