related works

Forbidden Music Regained : Volume 1

Genre: Unknown

Jules : scenische madrigalen, 1988 / kameropera op tekst van Sicco Heyligers, Daan Manneke

Genre: Opera, musical theatre
Subgenre: Opera
Scoring: alt bar bas GK4 fl cl cl-b acc org vl cb

4 Kleine meisjes : opera / Chiel Meijering

Genre: Opera, musical theatre
Subgenre: Opera

Alceste : Opera / Ton de Leeuw; tekst Ton de Leeuw (naar Euripides)

Genre: Opera, musical theatre
Subgenre: Opera
Scoring: sopr sopr-m ten bar MK fl 2ob 2cl 2fg 2trp 2trb db perc hp pf

composition

Amorys : Chamber opera in one act / music: Nico Richter; libretto: Hendrik Lindt

Author(s):
Leo Smit Stichting (Partner)
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.