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Sem Dresden / Marius Flothuis / Lex van Delden / Leo Smit

Sunday, 9 June 2024   |   14:00 - 15:30

Sem Dresden / Marius Flothuis / Lex van Delden / Leo Smit

The last concert of this season at the Muziekkamer aan de Amstel (Music Room on the Amstel) by Leo Smit Foundation which has invited an excellent flute/harp duo. They participated with great enthusiasm in the Festival Forbidden Music Regained in December 2023. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isffGCl8MIc The duo has asked violist Ruth Bosboom to participate in this concert. The three of them will perform Leo Smit’s Trio, written in 1926 for the famous harpist Rosa Spier.

Program:

Sem Dresden (1881-1957) Sonate for flute and harp (1918)
Marius Flothuis (1914-2001) Sonata da Camera for flute and harp (1943)
Lex van Delden (191-1988) Duo per Flauto ed Arpa (1950)
Leo Smit (1900-1943) Trio pour flûte, alto et harpe (1926)

  • Composer(s) Sem Dresden / Marius Flothuis / Lex van Delden / Leo Smit
  • Title(s) of the Work(s)

    Sem Dresden (1881-1957) Sonate for flute and harp (1918)
    Marius Flothuis (1914-2001) Sonata da Camera for flute and harp (1943)
    Lex van Delden (191-1988) Duo per Flauto ed Arpa (1950)
    Leo Smit (1900-1943) Trio pour flûte, alto et harpe (1926)
  • Performer, Ensemble or Orchestra Iara de Carvalho Perillo flute, Hedwig Brieffies harp, Ruth Bosboom viola

Date

Jun 09 2024
Expired!

Time

14:00 - 15:30

More Info

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isffGCl8MIc

Location

Amsterdam, Muziekkamer aan de Amstel
Amstel 57, Amsterdam

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Sonata

for flute and harp
Sem Dresden
Year of composition:
1918
Duration:
00:18:00
Publisher's Number: 19721
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Sonata da camera

per flauto e arpa, opus 42, 1951
Marius Flothuis
Year of composition:
1951
Duration:
00:10:00
Publisher's Number: 03033
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Duo

for flute and harp
Lex van Delden
Year of composition:
1950
Duration:
00:10:00
Publisher's Number: 03032
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Trio

pour flûte, alto et harpe
Leo Smit
Year of composition:
1926
Duration:
00:12:00
Publisher's Number: 08595
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Composer

Sem Dresden

Sem Dresden was born on April 20, 1881 in Amsterdam and died on July 30, 1957 in The Hague.He studied violin and piano with Richard Hageman, violin with Dudok and Togni, harmony with Roeske, counterpoint, fugue and composition with Bernard Zweers and composition and conducting with Hans Pfitzner in Berlin.Dresden fulfilled several functions as a […]
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Composer

Marius Flothuis

General Marius Flothuis was born on October 30, 1914 in Amsterdam where he died on November 13, 2001. Education Flothuis is largely self-taught as a composer. As a boy he played quatre mains (four hands) piano with his older brother.
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Lex van Delden

General Lex van Delden was born Alexander Zwaap on September 10, 1919 in Amsterdam the only child of Wolf Zwaap, a school teacher, and Sara Olivier. After the war, Alexander Zwaap changed his name to Lex van Delden, which is a derivation of the name he used while he went into hiding during war.
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Leo Smit

Leo Smit was born to a wealthy, non-orthodox Portuguese Jewish family, on May 14, 1900 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Together with his wife he was deported by the Germans in 1943, via Westerbork to Sobibór extermination camp. Uopn arrival, they were immediately annihilated.
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Location

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