Sonata for Piano / Landscape
by Gideon Klein
Piano - Sheet Music

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Piano, Speaker - Level 4

SKU: BA.BA09580

Composed by Gideon Klein. Edited by Ondrej Pivoda. This edition: urtext edition. Paperback. Performance score. Baerenreiter Verlag #BA09580. Published by Baerenreiter Verlag (BA.BA09580).

ISBN 9790260109261. 31 x 24.3 cm inches.

The extraordinarily gifted composer and pianist Gideon Klein (1919–1945) was murdered in the Fürstengrube concentration camp at the age of 25. One of the undeniable highlights of his small compositional legacy is his Sonata for Piano. Its three movements were written in reverse order in the Terezín concentration camp in 1943; only a three-measure draft of the intended fourth movement has survived.

This first Urtext edition of the piano sonata has been expanded to include the previously unpublished short melodrama “Landscape” (entitled “Topol” / “Poplar” in existing literature) in which the pianist can also take over the recitation part if required. In July 1939, shortly after Klein completed his studies at the conservatory, he composed this setting of the same-named poem by Vilm Závada (1905–1982) in the style of free atonality.

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- A description of the sources
- Information on the genesis and history of the work
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- Includes an introduction with critical commentary explaining source discrepancies and editorial decisions

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