Hans Gál: Partituras medio

These pieces are comparatively easy to play, though part of the sametradition as Brahms' and Reger's character pieces - far more manageable and less complicated.

This work was written for the Donaueschingen Musiktage of 1926 and given its first performance there together with Paul Hindemith's 'Konzertmusik' and Ernst Toch's 'Spiel' for wind band. Until a few y...

The Austrian-Hungarian Hans Gál (1890-1987) is one of the most important and most successful composers and musicologists of the 20th century. He studied in Vienna where he later worked as a teacher, c...

Hans Gál wrote 'Impromptu' in Edinburgh in August 1940 for his then 15-year-old son Peter. His son had already taken several violin lessons and now wanted to try to play the viola in order to join a y...

This work was written for the Donaueschingen Musiktage of 1926 and given its first performance there together with Paul Hindemith's 'Konzertmusik' and Ernst Toch's 'Spiel' for wind band. Until a few y...

In an idiom far removed from the melodic, harmonic and structural approach usually associated with the harpsichord these pieces are particularly individual and intriguing.