Forbidden Music Regained


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Blank en Rood

By Samuel Schuijer

genre
Opera / musical theatre
instrumentation
Opera (choir soloists pf)
location of manuscript
www.nederlandsmuziekinstituut.nl archive registration number 399/15
status
autograph
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Details

Radiant and ruddy

Parts for choir and soloists. Solo parts with piano.

Images

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About Samuel Schuijer

(09/09/1873 - 12/11/1942)
Samuel Schuijer

On December 11, 1942, Samuel Schuijer was murdered in Auschwitz. His home and music school had been plundered by the Nazis. With the loss of his life and destruction of his belongings, all traces of this significant Dutch musician seemed to be erased. But a group of children in The Hague found a box containing music manuscripts, waiting for the garbage truck. They took their treasure home and it became the first step in rediscovering a lost fragment of Dutch music history.

by Carine Alders