related works
Drie stukken : voor school-orkest, 1949, No. 1 / Sem Dresden
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
School orchestra
Scoring:
(1)000 0000 3perc pf4h str(vl vc (cb))
In Your Heart : for violoncello / Calliope Tsoupaki
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Cello
Scoring:
vc
Six sonatas for two violoncellos : opus Ib / edited by Robert L. Tusler, Willem de Fesch
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Cello
Scoring:
2vc
Eostre : for cello duo / Wilma Pistorius
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Cello
Scoring:
2vc
composition
Suite : for cello solo / Sem Dresden
Other authors:
Dresden, Sem
(Composer)
Contains:
Poco moderato
Allegro ma non troppo
Moderato
Molto allegro
Moderato poco largamente
Allegro moderato
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.