Repertoire

This repertoire list compromises information about more than 600 compositions by more than 125 composers, you will find by clicking on the above letter of the alphabet. It is the result of 20 years' research for the Ebony Band's concert programs. The list does not pretend to be complete, but all the works on it comply with one or more of the Ebony Band's objectives: they are unknown, were forgotten or assumed lost, and date from the first half of the twentieth century. A considerable number have actually been performed by the Ebony Band.

Most of the pieces are adventurous and have a modern flavour. They were written by composers who lent colour to their day, and whose music is well worth performing (again) today. Many of these composers were not given the chance to develop and build up a career, for their lives and ideals were suppressed or even ruined by totalitarian regimes in Germany, the Soviet Union, Spain and Latin America.In view of the fact that Berlin was the cultural centre of the western world in the 1920s and early 1930s, this repertoire list also includes a large number of pieces that were branded by the Nazis as entartete (degenerate) music.