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Hungarian opera singer and actress
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Explore the Score- Hans Gál, Symphony no. 2
Gál: Symphony No.2 in F Op.53 ‘The personal experience which is always expressed in music is very deeply buried in one’s own consciousness. One doesn’t know. One never knows.’ Hans Gál Hans Gál was born in 1890 just outside Vienna, where he studied with Richard Robert and Eusebius Mandyczewski. He rose to prominence in 1920s Germany and Austria, particularly as an operatic composer and in 1929, with the support of Richard Strauss, Gál became the director of the Conservatory in Mainz. Hitler’s ascent to power in 1933 marked a major reversal of fortune for Gál and his family. Because Gál was of Jewish descent, he was immediately dismissed from his position in Mainz, his music was banned and Gál suddenly found himself without a job or a country. Internment camp on the Isle of Man where Gal was imprisoned in the early months of WW II […]
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