related works
Forbidden Music Regained : Volume 1
Genre:
Unknown
Fragmenten : for orchestra / Primo Ish-Hurwitz
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
picc 2fl 2ob eh 2cl cl-b 2fg fg-c 4h 3tpt 3trb tb timp perc 2hrp str
Against odds : for orchestra / Leo Samama
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
2fl 2ob 2cl 2bsn 4h 2tpt 3trb tb 4perc str
Symphonie no. 5 : Les lendemains chantants, 1941-1945 / Matthijs Vermeulen
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
4464 3sax 4431 2timp 4perc 2hp 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.