Today 80 years ago, Leo Smit and his wife Lientje Smit-de Vries arrived in Sobibor. They were killed upon arrival.
@leo.smit.stichting hosted a commemorative concert with @dimitrimalignan who performed music by #LeoSmit, #DanielBelinfante and #HenriëtteBosmans. I had the honour to talk about Leo Smit’s music and my research on #SuppressedComposers

Vanavond om 21:00 uur de eerste aflevering over Leo Smit in het programma Kroniek van de Nederlandse Muziek bij de #concertzender
#LeoSmit #SuppressedComposers #DutchComposers

https://www.concertzender.nl/programma/kroniek_van_de_nederlandse_muziek_711899/

A violin concerto written in 1925 by Benedict Silbermann, premiered in 1950 and revived in 2022 by Nadia Wijzenbeek and the Radio Filharmonisch Orkest led by Chloe Rooke. Silbermann survived WWII and his career took a different turn, arranging and composing entertainment music for his radio orchestra.
#DutchComposers #SuppressedComposers
#ForgottenComposers

https://youtu.be/kMsOuCg2Wmo

@classicalmusic #MusicHistory #ForgottenComposers

In the case of #SuppressedComposers, reasons for oblivion further include murder, pillaging or loss of manuscripts, all ambassadors of the music are killed, too painful to remember.

Check out www.forbiddenmusicregained.org and let me know what you think!

More good news on composers banned during WWII: on 20th January the Netherlands Radio Choir and Orchestra are performing the Cantata Der Kreis des Levens by Jan van Gilse (1881-1944). You can follow the broadcast live here next Friday: https://bit.ly/3kiAB7G

More on Jan van Gilse: https://www.forbiddenmusicregained.org/search/composer/id/100024

@classicalmusic
#ForbiddenMusic #ForbiddenMusicRegained #SuppressedComposers #DutchComposers

Together with the Leo Smit Foundation, Donemus Publishing is publishing music by composers who were banned during WWII. Here's a newly released score of Rosy Wertheim's Piano Sonatina. You can download it here: https://webshop.donemus.com/action/front/sheetmusic/17176

#DutchComposers #ForbiddenMusic #ForbiddenMusicRegained #SuppressedComposers #WomenComposers
#piano #pianomusic #sheetmusic
@classicalmusic @womencomposers

Hans Krása, Thèmes et #variations pour #quatuor à cordes, par le Krása Quartet:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5dkX7QC76A
Quelques liens pour aller plus loin:
- le Forum Voix étouffées: https://www.voixetouffees.org/ (et sa chaîne Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@forumvoixetouffees7942)
- Initiative for Recovered Voices: https://www.colburnschool.edu/community-initiatives/recovered-voices/ (avec de nombreuses vidéos disponibles sur la chaîne Youtube de la Colburn School: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4e_Cgw7Rn6A)
#classicalmusic #forgottencomposers #recoveredvoices #suppressedcomposers #rediscovery #WWII