Forbidden Music Regained


Leo Smit Stichting
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Scenes Enfantines

By Israel Olman

genre
Orchestra
instrumentation
Orchestra (fl (picc) ob cl bn 2hn perc str)

Details

No. 1 Historiette
No. 2 Pensée
No. 3 Romance
No. 4 Scherzo
No. 5 incomplete

score incomplete - not dated

Images

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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 The world had changed and his musical idiom had become outdated.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