related works
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and piano
Scoring:
low pf
Three Elizabethan songs : for voice and harp (or piano) / Jochem Slothouwer
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and piano; Voice and instrument(s)
Scoring:
voice hp/pf
Drollige dicta : vier liederen op anonieme teksten, voor bariton en piano / Gerard Kockelmans
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and piano
Scoring:
bar pf
Burying friends : for a medium voice and piano, 1963 / poem by Kenneth Slessor, Henk Badings
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and piano
Scoring:
medium 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.