An article by David Fligg

Date	1st January 2020
URL	https://www.dvorak-society.og/?page_id=1792#Gideon-Klein
Format	Printed book

Journal of Czech and Slovak Music 29 (2020), pp4–34

This article provides a timeline of the composer’s life and offers a fascinating glimpse of musical activity during the early years of the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia. The article then examines in detail three of Klein’s works: the Three Songs for High Voice and Piano op.1 and String Quartet op.2 which were completed in German-occupied Prague and later discovered amongst a previously hidden hoard of manuscripts, while the other, The First Sin, also a rescued manuscript, dates from the time of Klein’s imprisonment in Terezín. Appendices include a chronological list of original compositions, arrangements and texts by the composer.