Composer and guitarist, born in Indonesia, died in Enschede (Provinz Overijssel). He began his guitar studies with Daan van Teeseling and Koos Tigges in Holland and was a student of Andrés Segovia in Santiago de Compostela (Spain) for several years. He studied composition with Kees van Baaren in Holland. He was principal lecturer in classical guitar, methodology, historical development and performance practice at the “Conservatorium of Saxion Hogeschool Enschede” and at the “Messiaen Academie Enschede” and has performed worldwide as a guitar soloist and chamber musician. Gall published about 200 compositions and arrangements for and with guitar, including many flute-guitar-duos, which he performed together with the flutists Lynne Priest Fitzpatrick and Ferenc Hutÿra.
(Rainer Stelle)