Cantata for school-choirs: for speaking voice, soli (children’s voices), children’s choir, percussion and piano 4 hands.
See also: www.nederlandsmuziekinstituut.nl catalogue application number MNmfII/0722
His hometown Lemberg, in the Ukraine known as Lviv, and in Poland as Lwów, has a history of occupation by shifting powers. This is why the Germans had trouble figuring out Ignace Lilien's real identity; he survived the war with forged documents. He worked as a chemical engineer, but that didn’t stop him from composing a large oeuvre. His life was as varied as his music, with influences ranging from Polish modernism to South American rhythms and timbres.
by Frans van Ruth