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Appendix 1 - List of Works

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 June 2023

David Fligg
Affiliation:
University of Chester
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Chronological list of extant completed and almost-complete original compositions, arrangements and texts by Gideon Klein. Works are published and commercially recorded unless otherwise stated.

Suite lyrique

Solo piano

Completed 14 November 1929

Unpublished; not yet recorded

Little Suite

Solo piano

Completed 27 April 1933

Unpublished; not yet recorded

Four movements for a string quartet, Op. 5

Vocal line in the second and third movements setting parts of poems by Otokar Březina

Completed 22 February 1935

Unpublished; not yet recorded

Four Small Harp Pieces

October 1935. First movement complete, the others incomplete

Unpublished; not yet recorded.

Topol (‘The Poplar Tree’)

Melodrama for piano and narrator

Text by Vilém Závada

Completed 11 July 1938, possibly 1939

Publication forthcoming (Baerenreiter) under the title of Krajina (‘Landscape’); not yet recorded

Four Movements for String Quartet

Completed 1 June 1938, with final revisions in September 1938

Duo for Violin and Viola in the Quarter-Tone System

First three movements completed 24 February 1940; fourth movement incomplete

Preludium for Solo Viola

Completed 3 April 1940

Divertimento for Eight Wind Instruments (two oboes, two clarinets, two bassoons and two horns)

Completed April 1940

Three Songs for High Voice and Piano, Op. 1

  • 1. ‘The Fountain’, text by Johann Klaj, translated by Erik Saudek

  • 2. ‘Halfway through Life’, text by Friedrich Hölderlin, translated by Erik Saudek

  • 3. ‘Twilight Has Fallen’, text by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, translated by Jan Dostal

Completed no later than 30 June 1940, with later undated revisions

String Quartet, Op. 2

Completed August 1941, with later undated revisions

Duo for Violin and Cello

First movement completed 6 November 1941; second movement incomplete

Arrangement: part of the first movement from Mozart's Sonata in C major for piano duet, k497

Chamber orchestra

1941

Unpublished; not yet recorded.

Arrangement: part of Borodin's Scherzo in A flat for Piano

Orchestra

1941

Unpublished; not yet recorded.

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Don't Forget about Me
The Short Life of Gideon Klein, Composer and Pianist
, pp. 289 - 292
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Print publication year: 2022

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  • List of Works
  • David Fligg, University of Chester
  • Book: Don't Forget about Me
  • Online publication: 14 June 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781800104990.028
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  • Book: Don't Forget about Me
  • Online publication: 14 June 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781800104990.028
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  • List of Works
  • David Fligg, University of Chester
  • Book: Don't Forget about Me
  • Online publication: 14 June 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781800104990.028
Available formats
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