related works
String Quartet / Henriette Bosmans
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
String quartet (2 violins, viola, cello)
Scoring:
2vl vla vc
Concerto (nº 2) : per violoncello and orchestra / Julius Röntgen
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Cello and orchestra
Scoring:
3222 4230 str vc-solo
Celloconcert no. II : (1939) / (instrumentatie 1954) [i.e. 1948], Henk Badings
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Cello and orchestra
Scoring:
2232 3220 timp perc str vc-solo
Second Concerto : for cello and orchestra / Henriëtte Bosmans
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Cello and orchestra
Scoring:
vc-colo 2fl/picc 2ob 2cl 2fg 2h 2tpt timp perd hp str
composition
Poème : voor violoncel en orkest / Henriëtte Bosmans
Other authors:
Leo Smit Stichting
(Partner)
Bosmans, Henriëtte
(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.