Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1919
- Died
- 1945
- Works
- 1
Top works
- Holokost'u anma
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Czechia
- Active from
- 1919-12-06
- Active to
- 1945-01-27
Discography
- Chamber Music From Theresienstadt 1941-19451991
- Klein / Krása / Haas / Schulhoff1994
- Schulhoff: Symphonie no. 2 / Haas: Studie für Streichorchester / Klein: Partita für Streicher / Ullmann: Symphonie no. 21994
- Chamber Music1995
- Music Written in Terezín1997
- The Chamber Music for Strings2007
- Music for Wind Instruments2017
- Paths2022
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Listeners · Last.fm
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- 859
- Total plays
- 4,382
Tags
composerClassicalCzechjewishwestern classical music
Gideon Klein (December 6, 1919 – c.January 1945) was a Czech pianist and composer of classical music. He was born in Přerov and, showing musical talent early, studied piano with Růžena Kurzová and Vilém Kurz, and composition with Alois Hába. In December 1941 he was deported by the Nazis to Terezín concentration camp, where along with Leoš Janáček's pupil Pavel Haas, Hans Krasa, and Schoenberg's pupil Viktor Ullmann he became one of the major composers in that camp, one of the few in which artis
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Klein
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Czechoslovakia
- Place of birth
- Přerov
- Place of death
- extermination camp
- Occupation
- musician
- Languages spoken
- Czech
- Student of
- Vilém Kurz
- Genre
- classical music
- Instrument
- piano
- Image
- Gideon Klein wiki.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1919-12-06
- date of death
- 1945-01-07
- indigenous to
- Jewish people
- place of detention
- Theresienstadt Ghetto
- Commons category
- Gideon Klein
- subject has role
- Holocaust victim
- name
- Gideon Klein
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