componist
Leo Smit geldt als een van Nederlands meest begaafde componisten uit het interbellum. Al kort na zijn afstuderen voert het Concertgebouworkest zijn orkestsuite 'Silhouetten' (1925) uit. Critici merken "het gebruik ...
gerelateerde werken
Sextuor : for wind quintet and piano / Leo Smit
Genre:
Kamermuziek
Subgenre:
Blaassextet (blaaskwintet en piano)
Bezetting:
fl ob cl fg h pf
Variaties op "My old Kentucky home good night" : voor piano vierhandig, 1985 / Hans Osieck
Genre:
Kamermuziek
Subgenre:
Piano 4 handen
Bezetting:
pf4h
Harde ballen : for 2 pianos, 2002 / Chiel Meijering
Genre:
Kamermuziek
Subgenre:
Piano 4 handen
Bezetting:
2pf
Valses sentimentales : voor piano vierhandig, opus 21, 1944 / Marius Flothuis
Genre:
Kamermuziek
Subgenre:
Piano 4 handen
Bezetting:
pf4h
compositie
Divertimento : for piano four-hands / Leo Smit
Overige auteurs:
Leo Smit Stichting
(samensteller)
Bevat:
Allegro ma non troppo
Lento
Allegro con fuoco
Toelichting:
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.