Gottlieb Wallisch, the pianist on this recording, made his concert debut at age seven and his Vienna Musikverein debut at twelve, launching his international career at seventeen with Lord Yehudi Menuhin.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Hans Gál rejected atonality, stating that he believed in tonality as much as in gravitation and could not imagine music without it.
Composer Biography
Gál's parents insisted he pursue a doctorate of philosophy at Vienna's University, which, along with private music lessons, shaped his unique aesthetic development.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Gál was fundamentally a classicist, believing that form was a determining factor in musical composition and provided necessary qualities for musical coherency.
Composer Biography
Gál's composition teacher was Eusebius Mandyczewski, a friend and musical executor of Johannes Brahms, with whom Gál would later produce a critical edition of Brahms's works.
Composition History
The Piano Quartet was commissioned by the one-armed pianist Paul Wittgenstein, who treated composers as service providers and felt free to make alterations to commissioned works.
Composer Biography
Hans Gál, born in 1890 near Vienna, was admired by Wilhelm Furtwängler and Richard Strauss, who recommended him for the directorship of Mainz's Musik College.
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