Alois Hába News
Czech music educator and composer (1893-1973)
- opera, classical music, microtonal music
- Czechoslovakia
- composer, pedagogue, musicologist, music teacher, music theorist, university teacher, teacher
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2020-04-03 12:41:40
In a dark moment of isolation, I found myself thinking of Viktor Ullmann (1898-1944) a student of the atonalist Schoenberg and the microtonalist Haba who never really found his voice until darkness descended and he faced segregation and extinction. Before 1939 he’d enjoyed fragments of international attention, with a piano sonata premiered in London at [...]
2018-06-20 15:40:24
On June 24, the New Opera Days Ostrava festival will give the belated world premiere of Thy Kingdom Come, by the pioneering Czech microtonal composer Alois Hába. Completed in 1942, the work draws inspiration from the Anthroposophical writings of Rudolf...
2016-02-29 02:56:28
[…] also became associated with the New Objectivity movement and began preferring the linear polyphonic idiom, abandoning formal coherence, thematic development, and tonal harmony in favor of metrically uniform structure, pulsating meter, irregular accents, dissonance, and independence of the voices. In parallel, as a performer, Hindemith played violin and later viola in a string quartet, which often performed works by such composers as Bartók, Stravinsky, Schoenberg, Webern, Kurt Weill, Philipp Jarnach, Ernst Krenek, Ernst Toch, Alois Hába and Hans Pfitzner. His discovery of the viol and viola d’amore during this period stimulated his interest in early music of which he became a student, practitioner, and a proponent. His works began to exhibit a neo-Baroque characteristics, employing tonality colored by modality. Mathis der Maler belongs to this stream. Inasmuch as Hindemith was willing to experiment in certain areas, he was adamant and dogmatic about others. Of the Schonberg’s 12-tone technique he said: […]
2013-06-30 02:09:00
Neue Musik in Darmstadt, Donaueschingen, Freiburg
Following on from the post 20 Ans de Musique Contemporaine à Metz, the many premiere recordings from Darmstadt Summer Courses and the Donaueschingen Festival. 50 JAHRE NEUE MUSIK IN DARMSTADT 1946-1996 CD 1: works on this cd (.pdf) | CD 2: works on this cd (.pdf) | CD 3: works on this cd (.pdf) | CD 4: works on this cd (.pdf) Col legno WWE 31893 (1996) [Flac & Scans] 75 JAHRE DONAUESCHINGER MUSIKTAGE 1921-1996 CD 1: Hindemith, String Quartet op. 16 - Stravinsky, Piano Sonata no. 2 - Krenek, 3 Marches for Military Orchestra op. 34 - Hindemit/Weill/(Brecht), Lindberghflug - Haass, Capriccio, Fugue and Intermezzo for Mechanical Piano | CD 2: Schönberg, Serenade op.24 - Berg, Lyric Suite - Haubenstock-Ramati, Credentials or Think, Think Lucky | CD 3: Cage, 12.55.6078'' - Hába, String Quartet op. 12 […]
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