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  • Die Stileigentümlichkeiten des jungen Beethoven und ihr Zusammenhang mit dem Stil seiner Reife ('Characteristics of the style of the young Beethoven and their relationship to the style of his maturity') . Dissertation, Vienna, 1913. Also in Studien zur Musikwissenschaft 4, p. 58-115. [Download as pdf-file 6.9MB]]

  • Anleitung zum Partiturlesen. Vienna: Philharmonischer Verlag, 1923. (English edition: Directions for Score Reading . London, 1924; also in Spanish). Also published in 1941 under the name of Theodor Leschetitzky. (It could not be published under the name of a Jewish author.)

  • 'Zum Problem der komischen Oper' ('On the problem of comic opera'). In Musikblätter des Anbruch IX, 1-2, pp.90-93, 1927. [Download as pdf-file 89K]

  • 'Vokale Kammermusik' ('Vocal chamber music'). In Musikblätter des Anbruch X, 9-10, pp.355-356, 1928. [Download as pdf-file 85K]

  • 'Chortechnik und Chorstudium'. In Pult und Taktstock, pp. 88-92, Oct.-Nov. 1928. [Download as pdf-file 87K]

  • 'Musikerziehung' ('Music education'). In Mainzer Anzeiger, 31st December 1929. [Download as pdf-file 87K]

  • 'Theater für Kinder' ['Theatre for children']. In Die Oper. Blätter des Breslauer Stadttheaters, Breslau, 1930-31. No. 8, pp. 114-5. [Download as pdf-file 73K]

  • (With R.Stöhr and A.Orel) Formenlehre der Musik . Leipzig: Kistner & Siegel, 1933. (Reprint: Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle/Saale 1950.

  • Olga Kurt-Schaab: Musikgeschichte von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart in 600 Fragen (revised and edited by Hans Gál). Vienna: Passer, 1935.

  • 'A rediscovered symphony by Haydn'. In Monthly Musical Record, January, 1939, pp. 12-14. [Download as pdf-file 75K]

  • 'The right tempo'. In Monthly Musical Record, July-August, 1939, pp. 174-7. Also in German: 'Das richtige Tempo'. In Schweizerische Musikzeitung 17/18, pp. 455-9, 1939. [Download as pdf-file 93K]

  • Catalogue of Manuscripts, Printed Music and Books of Music up to 1850 in the Library of the Music Department of the University of Edinburgh. London: Oliver & Boyd, 1941.

  • 'The Riddle of Schubert's Unfinished Symphony'. In The Music Review II (1), pp. 63-67, 1941. [Download as pdf-file 148K]

  • 'A deleted episode in Verdi's "Falstaff"'. In The Music Review II (4), pp. 266-72, 1941. [Download as pdf-file 144K]

  • 'Theory and practice in composition'. In Music and Letters XXIII (1), pp. 37-49, 1942.

  • 'Musikalisches und Unmusikalisches'. In Oesterreichische Musikzeitschrift II, 4-5, pp.96-102, 1947.

  • The Golden Age of Vienna. London: Parish, 1948.

  • 'Musikleben in England'. In Melos, pp. 168-70, June-July 1948.

  • 'Mozart's "Idomeneo"'. Opera 2 (8), pp. 393-6, 1951.

  • 'Why does one write a concerto?' Winter Gardens Society Magazine, No. 1, pp. 9-11, Bournemouth, 1951. [Download as pdf-file 161K]

  • 'Musikalische Volksetymologie'. In Neues Österreich, 24th April, 1955. [Download as pdf-file 91K]

  • Johannes Brahms. Werk und Persönlichkeit. Frankfurt a. M.: Fischer, 1961 (New edn. 1980). English edition: Brahms: his Work and Personality . New York: Knopf, 1963/London: Severn House, 1975.

  • Richard Wagner. Versuch einer Würdigung. Frankfurt a.M.: Fischer, 1963. English edition: Richard Wagner, London: Gollancz/New York: Stein & Day, 1976.

  • The Musician's World. Great Musicians in their Letters. London: Thames & Hudson, 1965.

  • 'Johannes Brahms'. In La Musica, Vol. I, pp. 557-593. Torino, 1966.

  • 'Hans Ferdinand Redlich zum Gedenken'. In Die Musikforschung 22, S. 3ff., 1969.

  • Franz Schubert oder die Melodie. Frankfurt a.M.: Fischer, 1970. English edition: Franz Schubert and the Essence of Melody , London: Gollancz, 1974. Hungarian edition: Schubert , Budapest: Zenemükiadó, 1973.

  • 'Forgotten Music'. In Brio Vol.9, No.2, pp.24-28. International Association of Music Libraries, 1972.

  • Drei Meister - drei Welten. Brahms, Wagner, Verdi. Frankfurt a.M.: Fischer, 1975.

  • Brahms: Briefe. Ed. by Hans Gál. Frankfurt a.M.: Fischer, 1979.

  • Schumann Orchestral Music. London: BBC, 1979.

  • Giuseppi Verdi und die Oper. Frankfurt a.M.: Fischer, 1982.

  • Musik hinter Stacheldraht ('Musik behind Barbed Wire'), edited by Eva Fox-Gál. Bern: Peter Lang, 2003. (Hans Gál's internment diary from summer 1940. In German - includes CD of the Huyton Suite and What a Life! Details and order-form here or order on-line)
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Anleitung zum Partiturlesen
Anleitung zum Partiturlesen
The Golden Age of Vienna
'The Golden Age of Vienna'
Johannes Brahms
'Johannes Brahms'
Richard Wagner
'Richard Wagner'
The Musican's World
The Musician's World
Franz Schubert
'Franz Schubert'
Giuseppe Verdi
'Giuseppe Verdi'
Schumann
'Schumann Orchestral Music'
Musik hinter Stacheldraht
'Musik hinter Stacheldraht'
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