#forgottencomposers — Public Fediverse posts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBm8xv9fvsM

Hans Fährmann was a #German composer and #organist, described by the critics of his time as a Richard #Strauss of the organ litterature.
Erster Siegessatz from 1916 is much more than a simple patriotic piece to celebrate a victory (which was never to come)
The #score is available from #IMSLP: https://vmirror.imslp.org/files/imglnks/usimg/9/96/IMSLP349386-PMLP564402-407522034.pdf

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A violin concerto written in 1925 by Benedict Silberman, premiered in 1950 and revived in 2022 by Nadia Wijzenbeek and the Radio Filharmonisch Orkest led by Chloe Rooke. Silberman survived WWII and his career took a different turn, arranging and composing entertainment music for his radio orchestra.
#DutchComposers #SuppressedComposers
#ForgottenComposers
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https://youtu.be/kMsOuCg2Wmo

An interesting blog from Bibliolore about Edgar Allan Poe and Joseph Holbrooke, another long forgotten British composer:
https://bibliolore.org/2023/02/02/poes-concertina/

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#holbrooke #classicalmusic
#forgottencomposers #poe #bibliolore

Thought-terminating cliché on #forgottencomposers no.1: 'But some of these composers are forgotten because they wrote bad music, right?’ Not so. They may have written music in a style that was not 'en vogue', or they may have written in a genre that was in low esteem, or they may have written only chamber music, or they may have written mainly for their own performing practice, or they may have written too little, but almost all of them were skilled professionals.
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#musichistory

Plusieurs #disques ont également été consacrés à la musique (et aux musiciens) dans le camp de #Terezín/Theresienstadt:
- The Terezín Music Anthology (plusieurs volumes chez Koch): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOIPUHwDMEA
- Spiritual Resistance, Music from Theresienstadt (Lieder pour baryton et piano, chez Bridge Records): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zm5V0c6IUMo
- Chamber Music from Theresienstadt (Channel Classics): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ake2cFQ0fFU
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#classicalmusic #20thcenturymusic #WWII #forgottencomposers #recoveredvoices

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

Prenons donc le temps de les écouter, ces voix étouffées de Pavel #Haas, Viktor #Ullmann ou Hans #Krása, pour leur redonner leur pleine place dans l'histoire: celle de la musique comme celle de l'humanité blessée dans la tourmente du #20esiècle et l'horreur de l'extermination.
Pavel Haas, #Quatuor à #cordes n°3, par le Pavel Haas String #Quartet:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQDvHaNwVq0
#classicalmusic #20thcenturymusic #musiquesdelamodernité #musiquedu20esiècle #chambermusic #stringquartet #forgottencomposers