Gabriel Banat
Gabriel Banat or Gábor Bánát (born surnamed Hirsch; September 23, 1926–July 23, 2016) was a Romanian-born American classical violinist, conductor and musicologist.[1]
Biography
Banat grew up in a Jewish and German-speaking family in
Georges Enescu with whom he later toured in the US.[3]
In 1946, Banat, a
Dobbs Ferry. In 1970 he joined the New York Philharmonic, then under Pierre Boulez. A passion for original sources resulted in his discovery (in Poland) of the holographs of Mozart's violin concertos missing from Berlin since 1941, which he then published in facsimile.[4]
Earlier, he compiled an edited Masters of the Violin, a six-volume collection of works by lesser seventeenth- and eighteenth-century composers. The third volume of that series was devoted to the violin concertos of the
New Grove
, 2000, and in the Dictionary of Black Composers, led to a book and a movie.
Banat owned and performed on two violins by
Begur, Catalonia where he died.[1]
Saint-Georges's life and career are the subject of the 2022 biographical film Chevalier, with Kelvin Harrison Jr. portraying the composer.[5]
Works
- Banat, Gabriel (2006). The Chevalier de Saint-Georges: Virtuoso of the Sword and the Bow. Hillsdale, New York: Pendragon Press. ISBN 978-1-57647-109-8.
- Banat, Gabriel (1990). "The Chevalier de Saint-Georges, Man of Music and Gentleman-at-Arms, the Life and Times of an Eighteenth Century Prodigy". JSTOR 779385.
- Mozart's Violin Concerti: A Facsimile Edition of the Autographs (Calla Editions)
- Masters of the Violin Volume 1: Six Violin Concertos and Sixty-Four Cadenzas
- Works for the violin (Masters of the violin / edited by Gabriel Banat)
References
- ^ a b "Banat Gabriel".
- ^ http://gabrielbanat.com/
- ^ "archives.nypl.org -- Gabriel Banat papers". archives.nypl.org.
- ISBN 9781606600597– via Library Catalog (Blacklight).
- ^ "Searchlight Movies 2023". Searchlight.