Gál's late works emphasize a miniature-like format where melody is a fundamental part of the form, deliberately used as the main element of musical structure.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Gál remained true to tradition as a compositional guiding principle, operating within classical keys, counterpoint, and harmony, unlike contemporaries like Schönberg who sought new harmonic orders.
Composer Biography
Hans Gál was awarded the Austrian State Prize in 1958 and the Grand Medal Litteris et Artibus of the Republic of Austria in 1981.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Gál's late works are a return to the origins of melody, striving for 'absolute melody' as found in folk music and his analysis of Beethoven.
Recording & Production
This album features the first complete recording of all Hans Gál's works for recorder with piano and for unaccompanied recorder.
Composition History
Many of the works on this recording were composed during Gál's final creative years in Scottish exile, with the exception of the Three Small Pieces for piano, written in 1933.
Composer Biography
Hans Gál, an Austrian composer, was forced into exile in England in 1938 due to Hitler's invasion and Austria's annexation to the German Reich.
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