related works
Forbidden Music Regained : Volume 2
Genre:
Unknown
Pour Finir Encore : for small orchestra / Symon Clarke
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
picc/fl/afl ob/eh cl-b cl-b/bcl bsn 2perc pf/cel hp 6vn 2vla 2vcl cb
Arethuza : symphonische mythe naar Louis Couperus, (1947) / Alexander Voormolen
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
3333 4431 timp perc cel 1-2hp org str
Salon symphonique : suite pour orchestre, 1963 / Jan van Dijk
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
2222 2sax 2110 timp perc str
composition
Four Horras : for orchestra / Dick Kattenburg
Author(s):
Leo Smit Stichting
(Partner)
Kattenburg, Dick
(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.