In search of Gideon Klein

Music Research Seminar, 5 Mar 2015, 4.30pm, School of Music (Lecture Theatre 1), University of Leeds

Dr David Fligg (Project Investigator, Performing the Jewish Archive), sets out to discover how, why, or even whether, environment informed the composition of Gideon Klein's String Trio, completed just days before the composer's deportation from the Terezín (Theresienstadt) ghetto to Auschwitz, where he was eventually killed.

Abstract available here:
http://music.leeds.ac.uk/events/music-research-seminar-david-fligg/

Full Music Research Seminar series here:
http://music.leeds.ac.uk/research/seminars/