composer
Johanna Bordewijk-Roepman was born on August 4, 1892 in Rotterdam. She died on October 8, 1971 in The Hague.
She studied English. Although she followed orchestration with Eduard Flipse as ...
related works
Forbidden Music Regained : Volume 2
Genre:
Unknown
Symphonie / Joh. Bordewijk-Roepman
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
3332 4331 timp perc hp str
Dramatische ouverture : voor orkest, Amsterdam, juni 1953 / R. Colaço Osorio-Swaab
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
2222 4331 timp 2perc hp str
Archetypi : for orchestra / Paolo Fradiani
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
2fl 2ob 2cl 2fg 2h 2tpt timp str
composition
Epiloog : for orchestra / Johanna Bordewijk-Roepman
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.