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Persecuted Composers

Learn more about composers whose works had been forbidden, and about a worldwide search for rediscovering forgotten manuscripts

Fania Chapiro

Netherlands, June 10, 1926 - December 6, 1994

Marius Flothuis

Netherlands, October 30, 1914 - November 13, 2001

Géza Frid

Netherlands, January 25, 1904 - September 13, 1989

Lex van Delden

Netherlands, September 10, 1919 - July 1, 1988

Sim Gokkes

February 14, 1897 - February 5, 1943

Ignace Lilien

Netherlands, May 29, 1897 - May 10, 1964

Leo Smit

Netherlands, May 14, 1900 - April 30, 1943

Dick Kattenburg

Netherlands, February 14, 2022 - February 14, 2022

Jan van Gilse

Netherlands, May 11, 1881 - September 11, 1944

Hans Krieg

Bertus van Lier

Netherlands, September 10, 1906 - February 14, 1972

Israel Olman

February 14, 1883 - February 14, 1968

Paul Hermann

February 14, 2022 - February 14, 2022

Max Vredenburg

Netherlands, January 16, 1904 - January 1, 1976

Johanna Bordewijk-Roepman

Netherlands, August 4, 1892 - October 8, 1971

Reine Colaco Osorio-Swaab

Netherlands, 1881 - 1971,

Rosy Wertheim

Netherlands, February 19, 1888 - May 27, 1949

Julius Hijman

February 14, 2022 - February 14, 1969