related works
Divertimento : for piano four-hands / Leo Smit
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Piano 4 hands
Scoring:
pf4h
Poème : pour harpe et petit orchestre, opus 96, 1993 / Marius Flothuis
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Harp and orchestra
Scoring:
1000 sax-a 0000 perc str hp-solo
Concerto : for harp and orchestra / Robert Groslot
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Harp and orchestra
Scoring:
2(2=picc)2(2=ca)2(2=bclar)1 /1110 / perc (5 players) / strings
Spelingen : for harp and orchestra / Wilbert Bulsink
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Harp and orchestra
Scoring:
hp-solo 2fl 2ob cl cl-b 2fg 2h 2tpt 2trb tb timp 2perc str
composition
Concertino : for harp and orchestra / Leo Smit
Other authors:
Leo Smit Stichting
(Curator)
Smit, Leo
(Composer)
Contains:
Allegro
Lento
Scherzando
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.