DCV 522 – Forbidden Music Regained 2023

DCV 410 Forbidden Music Regained 2021 Various Artists Booklet:

DCV 507 Forbidden Music Regained 2022 Various Artists

Theodore Henri Smit Sibinga was born in Bandung and still a toddler when his family returned to the Netherlands. After high school, he started cello lessons with Bertrand Drilsma and Marix Loevensohn, and later with Gérard Hekking, the principal cellist of the Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam.

Rosy Wertheim was born on February 19, 1888 in Amsterdam and she died on May 27, 1949 in Laren. After receiving a piano certificate from the Dutch Musicians’ Society, she studied harmony and counterpoint with Bernard Zweers and Sem Dresden at the Muzieklyceum in Amsterdam.

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.

Belinfante was born in the Amsterdam neighborhood Watergraafsmeer on March 6, 1893, the third child in a family of ten. From his father Aron, a diamond worker, and his uncle Sidney, Daniel got his first violin lessons.

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.

Nico Richter was born on December 2, 1915 in Amsterdam of Jewish descent. In February 1942 the Germans arrested him for being a member of an underground group.

Julius Hijman was born on January 25, 1901 in Almelo, at that time a town with a prosperous textile industry. His Jewish parents, the physician Leopold Hijman and Catherina Lion were part of the local notables and had many friends among the local captains of industry.

General Dutch composer Dick Kattenburg barely got started before the curtain came down. In hiding from Nazi authorities in Utrecht, Kattenburg was probably arrested in a movie theater and shipped out to Auschwitz in May 1944. By late September, Kattenburg was dead at age 24.

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.

Eleonore Pameijer is a musician, an organizer and an initiator. She has a broad repertoire ranging from the Baroque and Classical eras to the twentieth century. She has a close affinity with early twentieth-century Impressionistic music. Among the many modern composers on her repertoire list are more than 100 Dutch ones.

Two piece by Leo Smit by Rotterdam Philharmonisch Orkest under Manoj Kamps in Oude Luxor Theater, Rotterdam.  Other works of the program are by Hindemith, Strauss, Hartmann, and Weill. 

On Saturday afternoon, November 29, 2025, the fifth edition of the Festival Forbidden Music Regained will take place in the Bernard Haitinkzaal at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam.

Education Michael has a degree in English Literature from the State University of New York. Despite having no formal music education, he has an active international career in several aspects of the music business.

"Creativity is an unconscious act of insanity, in a burst of which the truth is born. No matter how beautiful or disgusting it may seem to people far from madness, its value is beyond doubt, both for the author and for those able to sense its invisible beauty. After all, gratitude for endless trials and suffering brings joy and blissful emptiness… Being shocked by music is about pain turning into beauty and getting under your skin, taking away your breath; about everything stopping to move. I want to be scratched inside by sound and experience the fleeting, invisible beauty." - Maxim Shalygin

Celia Swart (1994, NL) is a new music composer, saxophone player and visual artist. Growing up playing saxophone and piano, she found her love for composing.