Music behind Barbed Wire - A Diary of Summer 1940
Language: English
Published by Toccata Press, 2014
- Hardcover
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- Title
- Music behind Barbed Wire - A Diary of Summer 1940
- Author
- Hans Gal
- Publisher
- Toccata Press
- Publication year
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Hardback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0907689752
- ISBN 13
- 9780907689751
- Item weight
- 642 grams
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Review
Biographies have appeared over the years and performances help to focus what this new book's blurb correctly calls the "distinctive voice" of a "master craftsman," here illustrated with a CD of strikingly graceful music. . . . The diary is fascinating, detailed, informative and indeed unique. MUSICAL TIMES
This is an important resource for musicians and historians [...] it is a welcome addition to the life and work of Hans Gál, who is finally being recovered as a lost master of the twentieth century. TLS
Hopefully, this volume will inspire someone to undertake a much needed full-length biographical study of an underrated composer. [Five Stars] BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE
[An] invaluable book ... A mine of information throughout, the core of the book is Gál's diary, written in a lively and eminently readable style. GRAMOPHONE
[Hans Gál's] diary is typically insightful, witty and richly detailed, written in a vivid and engaging style that translates well and grips the reader ... Eva Fox-Gál provides an excellent biographical essay of her father's life ... An essential volume on this fascinating composer, and actually the first to appear in English. Unreservedly recommended. [Five Stars] CLASSICAL MUSIC
A mine of information throughout, the core of the book is Gál's diary, written in a lively and eminently readable style. He emerges as a likeable and immensely capable character, aware of his own mettle yet wearing it lightly, and quite free from the pretensions of grandeur. GRAMOPHONE
"This remarkable book presents a fine translation of the diary kept by Austrian composer Hans Gál during his internment in the summer of 1940, after he had fled Nazi-occupied Europe with his family. . . . His diary is typically insightful, witty and richly detailed, written in a vivid and engaging style that translates well and grips the reader. [. . . ] one of the joys of this book is a free accompanying CD which presents fine recording of the works he created. . . . This is music of such optimism and invention, that it is scarcely credible it was created under such duress. It deserves wider currency. [. . . ] Unreservedly recommended. --Brendan G Carroll, Classical Music Magazine
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