Forbidden Music Regained

Link

www.forbiddenmusicregained.org

Status

active

How they describe themselves

website, database

Blurb

Since 1996, Leo Smit Stichting has brought music by suppressed composers to life. Sometimes music is heard for the first time, sometimes it resounds after 75 years. We would like to share what we’ve discovered with a wider audience. Every musician can write history with music of unheard-of beauty, awaiting performance. Music that deserves an audience. Every programmer can choose untrodden paths and suprise their audience. Every listener should have access to the most beautiful music, without censoring. Join us in discovering forbidden music.

Our English language website Forbidden Music Regained offers access to more than 2,000 compositions of suppressed composers. We invite you to browse the database by visiting the works list at the bottom of each composer’s biography. Click a title and discover where you may find the sheetmusic. If we know of a recording, you will find it here. You may even find a direct link to listen online.

However, a more specific search is also possible: for instance by selecting a genre (vocal music, chamber music, orchestral music), selecting specific instrumentations (string quartet, piano solo, choir, flute and piano and much more) or filtering the year in which a work was composed. You may want to filter published works (or works that have never been published) or narrow your search down to composers of your choice. From the results list, it is immediately clear which works can be heard online.

Almost all manuscripts have been scanned, and can be ordered via Donemus webshop.

Creator(s)

Carine Alders and Eleonore Pameijer

Steward(s)

Leo Smit Stichting