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Concerto pour Guitare et Orchestre

By Theo Smit Sibinga

genre
Orchestra
instrumentation
Guitar and orchestra (2fl 2ob 2lcl 2bn 2hn 2tr timp str)
duration
21 minutes
year
1958
location of manuscript
https://www.muziekschatten.nl/compositie?uri=http://data.muziekschatten.nl/som/78121
status
published score
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dedication

Dick Visser

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About Theo Smit Sibinga

Theo Smit Sibinga

After Smit Sibinga's death, Everard van Royen, director of the Amsterdam Music Lyceum, praised him as a sensitive and skillful composer and “the beauty of the ancient civilization of the Indonesian archipelago which had influenced him during his twenty years in the tropics.”  Theo Smit Sibinga’s music is transparent and melodic and he felt attracted to modern French culture. As a composer he remained relatively unknown since he was not the kind of man to put himself at the forefront. Many of his manuscripts were lost during his captivity in the camps on the island of Java in the Dutch East Indies.

by Henk Mak van Dijk