Gideon Klein

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Gideon Klein (born December 6, 1919 in Przerow, died in January 1945 in Fürstengrube) is a Czech pianist and compiler of Jewish origin. Curriculum vitae

He was born in Przerowo, Moravia. In 1930 he came to Prague to take part in art courses at the Gimnazjum im. Jiráska and download private piano lessons. At the end of 1938 he began his piano studies at the conservatory in the class of Professor Vilé Kurz, and at the same time studied philosophy and musicology at the Charles University in Prague. The first graduated after only a year, and the second had to stop because the Nazis closed all universities in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. In the aftermath of World War II Klein took private lessons with Professor Alois Háby for the next year.

In December 1941 he was brought in one of the first transports to the Theresienstadt camp. Immediately, in the early period illegally, and then with the permission of the concert. His first concerts were with Bernhard Kaff on a semi-decanated piano. According to the surviving records, Klein performed as a soloist at least 15 times, playing the repertoire developed during his short pianist career between the end of his studies and his deportation to the camp. He also performed chamber music with Friedrich Marek and Pavl Kling. In the camp he also wrote several works and compositions that have only partially survived to this day.

In October 1944 he was deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau and then to the Fürstengrube camp where he died in January 1945. Authoritative control (person):

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