Gabriel Banat or Gábor Bánát (born surnamed Hirsch; September 23, 1926 – July 23, 2016) was a Romanian-born American classical violinist, conductor and musicologist.
In 1942 the family moved to Budapest and was trained at Franz Liszt Academy of Music as a concert violinist after being heard by Bela Bartok and Ede Zathureczky.
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 Chevalier de Saint-Georges, one of which Banat premiered in New York and Tokyo.