Forbidden Music Regained


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Salomé muziekdrama in 3 bedrijven

By Samuel Schuijer

genre
Opera / musical theatre
instrumentation
Opera
location of manuscript
www.nederlandsmuziekinstituut.nl archive registration number 399/16

Details

Salomé, music drama in 3 acts. Words after the drama by Oscar Wilde. Only the third act is present and is unfinished.

About Samuel Schuijer

(09/09/1873 - 12/11/1942)
Samuel Schuijer

On December 11, 1942, Samuel Schuijer was murdered in Auschwitz. His home and music school had been plundered by the Nazis. With the loss of his life and destruction of his belongings, all traces of this significant Dutch musician seemed to be erased. But a group of children in The Hague found a box containing music manuscripts, waiting for the garbage truck. They took their treasure home and it became the first step in rediscovering a lost fragment of Dutch music history.

by Carine Alders