Forbidden Music Regained


Leo Smit Stichting
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Meidroom

By Israel Olman

genre
Opera / musical theatre
instrumentation
Music theatre (mixed choir, children's choir sopr bar 2fl fl 2ob 2cl 2bn 4hn 3tpt timp perc hp str)
year
1946

Details

Music theatre in 8 acts - Words by C.S. Adama van Scheltema

July 1946

Score and piano reduction

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About Israel Olman

(08/17/1883 - 05/08/1968)
Israel Olman

Up until World War II, Israel J. Olman had been a celebrated choral conductor and composer. He wrote synagogal music and also music for socialist choirs, to be performed at major singing competitions. His fame, in addition to the fact that he was married to a Catholic woman, offered him some protection during the war. In the post-war years his reputation as a composer diminished rapidly, creating financial difficulties. The world had changed and his musical idiom had become outdated.

by Pauline Micheels