David Fligg

Research Funding

• Research funded by AHRC through the ‘Gido’s Coming Home!’ festival (2019-2020)
• Research funded through the ‘Performing the Jewish Archive’ project (University of Leeds), part of the AHRC’s ‘Care for the Future’ theme (2014-2018)
• 2012-2014: ‘Music, Memory and Migration’ project (University of Leeds), funded by the Worldwide Universities Network
• 2010-2011: Post-RAE funding (Leeds College of Music)

Undergraduate Teaching

• Elective leader for Music and Ideology: Europe 1900-1933 [2014-2020]
• Elective leader for Music under the Third Reich: 1933-1945 [2014-2020]
• Team-tutor for Music, Culture & Performance 2: The Modern (pre-WW2) [2016-2020]
• Historical and Contextual Studies 2 – Post 1900 [2014-16]

Selected Outputs

Authored Books

• David Fligg, Don’t Forget About Me: The Short Life of Gideon Klein, Composer and Pianist , (London: Toccata Press, 2022).
• David Fligg, Dopis od Gideona (Letter from Gideon), (Prague: P3K Publications, 2019).
• David Fligg, A Concise Guide to Orchestral Music, (Pacific, USA: Mel Bay Publications, Inc., 2010).

Chapters in Books

• David Fligg, ‘These were good times: ‘The Poplar Tree’ on the edge of war’, in Torso eines Lebens Der Komponist und Pianist Gideon Klein (1919-1945), ed. by Albrecht Dümling, (Neumünster: von Bockel Verlag, 2021), pp.53-57.
• David Fligg, ‘Gideon Klein: Geboren am 6. Dezember 1919 in Přerov, gestorben am 27. Januar in Arbeitslager Fürstengrube’, in Torso eines Lebens Der Komponist und Pianist Gideon Klein (1919-1945), ed. by Albrecht Dümling, (Neumünster: von Bockel Verlag, 2021), pp.11-26.
• David Fligg, ‘(Re)Visiting the (Jewish) Archive of Gideon Klein, Terezin 1941-1944’, in The Routledge Companion to Music under German Occupation, 1938-1945: Propaganda, Myth and Reality, ed. by David Fanning and Erik Levi, (London: Routledge, 2018)

Journal Articles

• David Fligg, ‘Gideon Klein at 100: A festival and a new biography’, Czech Music Quarterly, 20 (2020), 26-32.
• David Fligg, ‘Gideon Klein: Discovering the Rediscovered’, Journal of Czech and Slovak Music, 29 (2020), 4-34.
• David Fligg, ‘A Festival of Rediscovered Czech Jewish Music’, Czech Music Quarterly, 16 (2016), 12-15.
• David Fligg, ‘Positioning Gideon Klein’, Musique et camps de concentration, 1 (2015), 118-125.
• David Fligg, ‘Creativity in Adversity’, English Touring Opera Autumn 2012, (2012), 24-29.

Review Articles

• A Season of Singing: Creating Feminist Jewish Music in the United States, Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, David Fligg, 2018, Routledge, London

Professional Activity

• These were good times: ‘The Poplar Tree’ on the edge of war. Symposium: Torso eines Lebens; Der komponist und pianist Gideon Klein (1919-1945). Staatlichen Institut fur Musikforschung, Berlin, December 2019
• Performing a Holocaust archive. Sir John Manduell Research Seminar, Royal Northern College of Music, January 2017
• Gideon Klein: Musical rupture and Jewish migration. Musical cultures of the Habsburg Monarchy and Successor States symposium, University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna, February 2017
• Music and memorialisation: Performing Holocaust testimony, Faculty of Arts and Media research seminar, University of Chester, March 2017
• Gideon Klein: Portrait of a Composer. Theatrical and musical presentation, Madison (Wisconsin), May 2016; Leeds, June 2016; Prague, September 2016
• (Re)visiting the archive of Gideon Klein – Terezín, 1941-1944. Royal Musical Association Annual Conference, London, September 2016
• Creativity in adversity. Pre-concert talk for the Nash Ensemble, Leeds Grand Theatre, June 2016
• Exile and migration: Composers in the USA. Pre-concert talk for Bach Dynamite and Dancing Society concert, Madison (Wisconsin), May 2016
• Laughter in the Ghetto. Panel member, Limmud Annual Conference, Birmingham, December 2015
• How to use field-work to find family information. International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies annual conference, Jerusalem, July 2015
• Gideon Klein’s Prague. Guided walking tour of Prague, Rafael Schächter Institute for Arts & Humanities (Washington DC) Summer School, May 2015
• Gideon Klein – Ullmann’s younger colleague in the Terezín Ghetto. Viktor Ullmann Symposium, Hebrew University of Jerusalem & Beit Terezín, Israel, August 2014
• Positioning Gideon Klein. Newlands Lecture, University of Hull (Department of  Music), December 2013
• Silenced voices. Symposium, Council of Europe, Strasbourg, November 2013
• On the family trail of Gideon Klein, International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies annual conference, Boston USA, August 2013
• Principles of engagement: Scripts from the Terezín Ghetto today, Symposium, University of York (Department of Theatre, Film and Television), May 2013
• Melody, passion and persecution. Pre-concert talk,Royal Academy of Music, February 2013
• What happened to all the Jewish music after the Holocaust? Schools workshop, University of Leeds (School of Music), February 2013
• On some threshold of the air – The songs of Viktor Ullmann. English Touring Opera symposium, University of Hull (Department of  Music), November 2012
• Viktor Ullmann and the musicians of Terezín. English Touring Opera pre-performance talk, Harrogate Theatre, November 2012
• Searching for Gideon Klein. American Musicological Society Annual Conference, San Francisco, November 2011

Radio features, interviews and contributions:

• Jewish Composers in Czechoslovakia and the Terezín Ghetto. Czech Radio (Vltava), October 2017
• Music on the brink of destruction. BBC Radio 3, January 2017
• Performance sheds new light on life and work of Gideon Klein. Czech Radio (Radio Praha), September 2016
• Performing the Jewish Archive: an international project revives the work of persecuted playwrights and composers. Czech Radio (Radio Praha), February 2016