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
Spelingen : for harp and orchestra / Wilbert Bulsink
Genre:
Orkest
Subgenre:
Harp en orkest
Bezetting:
hp-solo 2fl 2ob cl cl-b 2fg 2h 2tpt 2trb tb timp 2perc str
Concerto : for harp and orchestra / Robert Groslot
Genre:
Orkest
Subgenre:
Harp en orkest
Bezetting:
2(2=picc)2(2=ca)2(2=bclar)1 /1110 / perc (5 players) / strings
Sinfonia concertante nr. 5 : for clarinet, harp and orchestra / Carlos Micháns
Genre:
Orkest
Subgenre:
Harp en orkest
Bezetting:
2fl(pic) 2ob 2fg 2h trp timp perc cl-solo hp-solo
compositie
Concertino : for harp and orchestra / Leo Smit
Overige auteurs:
Leo Smit Stichting
(samensteller)
Bevat:
Allegro
Lento
Scherzando
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.