related works

Divertimento facile : voor orkest, gecomponeerd in het jaar 1957 / door Bertus van Lier

Genre: Orchestra
Subgenre: Orchestra
Scoring: 2222 2200 timp perc str

Bereft : for medium voice and piano / Dennis Hyams; poem by Thomas Hardy

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Voice and piano
Scoring: zang pf

Brecht song cycle 2 : for mezzo soprano and piano / Erik Lotichius; texts by B. Brecht

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Voice and piano
Scoring: m-sopr pf

Théâtre des pûces : voor zangstem en piano / Peter Schat; text Halbo C. Kool

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Voice and piano
Scoring: sopr pf

composition

A tfile fun a Ghettojid (A Prayer of a Ghetto Jew) : for low voice and piano / Bertus van Lier; text Rywa Kwiatkowska

Other authors:
Kwiattkowska (Text writer/Librettist)
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.