Forbidden Music Regained


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De Wapens neer Vredeslied (in volkstoon)

By Samuel Schuijer

genre
Vocal music
instrumentation
Voice and piano (voice pf)
year
1919
location of manuscript
www.nederlandsmuziekinstituut.nl archive registration number 399/11a 399/11b 399/11c
status
autograph
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Details

Weapons down Song of peace (in folk style)

The Hague

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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