Forbidden Music Regained


Leo Smit Stichting
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vioolconcert

By Nico Richter

genre
Orchestra
instrumentation
Violin and orchestra (2202 2200 timp perc str(8.8.6.5.) vl-solo)
duration
9 minutes
year
1933
location of manuscript
www.nederlandsmuziekinstituut.nl aanvraagnummer 326/001-1
status
published score
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Details

February 1933

About Nico Richter

Nico Richter

Almost all Nico Richter’s surviving compositions date from his student days. Most of them are ultrashort, inspired by Webern and Berg. As a student of medicine, he directed the student orchestra MUSA. He joined the resistance, was arrested in 1942 and sent to work in successive concentration camps. A physical wreck, he dictated his final composition on his deathbed just after liberation. His talent never reached full maturity.

by Dr. Julia Muller-van Santen