Baerenreiter Verlag Sonata for Piano / Landscape - Klein - Performance Score, Urtext Edition - Piano, Speaker Sonata for Piano / Landscape - Klein - Performance Score, Urtext Edition - Piano, Speaker

Composer: Gideon Klein
Editor: Ondrej Pivoda
Format: Performance score, Urtext edition
Instrumentation: Piano, Speaker
Scoring: Piano, Speaker

The extraordinarily gifted composer and pianist Gideon Klein (1919-1945) was murdered in the Furstengrube 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 Terezin 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This first Urtext edition of the piano sonata has been expanded to include the previously unpublished short melodrama "Landscape" (entitled "Topol" / "Poplar" in existing literature) in which the pianist can also take over the recitation part if required.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 Vilem Zavada (1905-1982) in the style of free atonality.