Until the release of Avie's Hans Gál: The Complete Works for Solo Piano in 2005, even seasoned classical music listeners, by and large, had no idea who Hans Gál was. An Austrian composer displaced by the rise of Nazism, Gál escaped to England only to be interned; after his release he became a distinguished professor of music in his adopted homeland of Scotland. Only the year before his death at age 97 did Gál become recognized for his compositions: lightly modern in style, tinged with impressionism, and possessed of the ...
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Until the release of Avie's Hans Gál: The Complete Works for Solo Piano in 2005, even seasoned classical music listeners, by and large, had no idea who Hans Gál was. An Austrian composer displaced by the rise of Nazism, Gál escaped to England only to be interned; after his release he became a distinguished professor of music in his adopted homeland of Scotland. Only the year before his death at age 97 did Gál become recognized for his compositions: lightly modern in style, tinged with impressionism, and possessed of the properties of a unique harmonic sensibility. On New Classical Adventure's Hans Gál: Orgelwerke, organist Istvan Mátyás takes on Gál's small but respectably sized output for organ that dates from the 1920s, '40s, and '50s, though his interest in the instrument dates back to the beginning of Gál's career circa 1910.Despite its German-language title, the Concertino für Orgel und Streicher was first performed in 1949 in Scotland; despite its strongly stated and beautiful second movement, an...
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