related works
Forbidden Music Regained : Volume 1
Genre:
Unknown
Quatre mélodies : voor middenstem en piano / Jan van Dijk; tekst van Jacques Prévert
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and piano
Scoring:
voice pf
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and piano
Scoring:
middlevoice pf
Traumwald : voor alt-mezzo en piano, gecomp. 1967 / [tekst: Chr. Morgenstern], Henk Bijvanck
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and piano
Scoring:
alt-m pf
composition
Vrijheid : for voice or unisono boys choir and piano; transcription for voice and organ / Bertus van Lier; tekst Jan Engelman; organ transcription Matthias Havinga
Author(s):
Engelman, Jan
(Text writer/Librettist)
Leo Smit Stichting
(Partner)
Lier, Bertus van
(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.