March 1926
Includes 'Skeletten Polka II' (skeleton polka), which is also part of the 'Suite de la Mort'
Dec 15, 1930 First performance by Daniel Belinfante for VARA radio, in a violin-piano recital with Eduard van Sloghem.
Daniel Belinfante's manuscripts, donated in 1955 to the Dutch Music Institute in The Hague by his widow Martha Belinfante-Dekker, remained untouched for decades. It is an oeuvre of some 100 compositions consisting of solo concertos, an orchestral suite, string quartets, works for strings and piano, songs and choral works. During his lifetime, Belinfante's music was rarely performed. After his violent death in Fürstengrube, a subcamp of Auschwitz, it would take sixty years before his music was rediscovered.
by Marcel Worms