composer
Leo Smit came from a mixed Sephardic Ashkenazi family. His father, Rephaël Smit, was a wealthy shoe merchant descending from the Ashkenazi Smit family. The other three grandparents, two of ...
related works
Forbidden Music Regained : Volume 1
Genre:
Unknown
Concerto : pour harpe et orchestre, 1986 / Luctor Ponse
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Harp and orchestra
Scoring:
3333 4240 timp 5perc str hp-solo
Concert : voor harp en klein symphonieorkest, 1967 / Henk Badings
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Harp and orchestra
Scoring:
2fl 2ob cl cl-b 2fg 4h 2trp 2trb timp 2perc cel str hp-solo
Fas / Nefas : version for harp and orchestra, 1997 / Willem Jeths
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Harp and orchestra
Scoring:
2fl fl(pic) ob ob(eh) 2cl cl-b fg fg(cfg) 4h trp trp(trp-p) trb-t trb-b tb timp 3perc hp pf str(12.10.8.7.4.) hp-solo
composition
Concertino : for harp and orchestra / Leo Smit
Other authors:
Leo Smit Stichting
(curator)
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.