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5 mei: zij

By Bertus van Lier

genre
Vocal music
instrumentation
Mixed choir and orchestra (boyschoir SATB 4323 4331 timp perc hp str)
duration
18 minutes
year
1962
location of manuscript
www.nederlandsmuziekinstituut.nl archive registration number 193/075
status
published score
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Details

5th of may: they: for mixed choir, boys choir and orchestra

Words by Kitty Henriette Rodolpha de Josselin de Jong

To remember the liberation of the Netherlands

Commissioned by the ‘Staatssecretaris van O., K. en W.’

Roden

About Bertus van Lier

Bertus van Lier

Composer Bertus van Lier was a versatile and determined intellectual. From the start of World World II he upheld his principles against the occupier. During and after the war he maintained this attitude towards those colleagues who were suspected of collaboration with the enemy. In compositions written during the war, Van Lier expressed his resistance to the deprivation of liberty, especially in his vocal works. After the liberation his work as composer diminished and he focused on his activities as a musicologist, pedagogue and publicist.

by Diet Scholten