related works
Concert : voor piano met orkestbegeleiding / Sem Dresden
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Piano and orchestra
Scoring:
2123 3230 timp 2perc hp str vl-solo
Sonate no. II : for 'cello-solo, (1967) / Walter Hekster
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Cello
Scoring:
vc
Gia Sena kai i boukla : for cello / Kees Arntzen
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Cello
Scoring:
vc
Wind of Love : for cello / Calliope Tsoupaki
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Cello
Scoring:
vc
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.