related works
Forbidden Music Regained : Volume 2
Genre:
Unknown
Place Grimaldi : Opera / Hans Lachman; words by Prof. dr. H. Freudenthal
Genre:
Opera, musical theatre
Subgenre:
Opera
Scoring:
sopr mezzosopr ten bar bas-bar SATB 2fl 2ob 2cl 2bn 4h 3tr 3tb perc hp str
Merlijn : symfonisch drama in 3 bedrijven, 1939 / muziek: Willem Pijper, libretto: Simon Vestdijk
Genre:
Opera, musical theatre
Subgenre:
Opera
Scoring:
soloists MK 3333 sax 4331 timp 2perc hp pf str
Die Visioen : Oper in einem Akt / Robert de Roos
Genre:
Opera, musical theatre
Subgenre:
Opera
Scoring:
sopr 2ten bar bas GK4 2233 4330 timp perc str
composition
Amorys : Chamber opera in one act / music: Nico Richter; libretto: Hendrik Lindt
Other authors:
Leo Smit Stichting
(Curator)
Lindt, Hendrik
(Text writer/Librettist)
Richter, Nico
(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.