Alois Hába

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Alois Hába (June 21, 1893, Vizovice – November 18, 1973, Prague) was a Czech composer, musical theoretician, teacher and organiser, one of the creators of microtonal systems in a western musical context. His most significant innovative contribution to European music is his reworking of the tonality into quarter, six, twelve, and five tone systems, which come from the Moravian folk tradition. He was a student of Vítězslav Novák, doggedly fought for a new style, which precisely mirrored the Schoenberg and Webern evolution in the twenties. According to his designs, special instruments (pianos, harmoniums, clarinets, guitars, and bugles) were constructed. He also substantially changed the existing rules of form with the so-called athematic style, which deliberately removed all of the thematic relations in a composition. He used these principles consistently in his works and also published them in book form. Hába also educated a succession of students as a professor at Prague's Conservatory and AMU. Included in his vast body of works is the excellent quarter-tone opera Matka (Mother) and the fantasy symphony Cesta života (Road of Life), also written using the quarter-tone system. His other operas include Nová země (New Land) and Přijď království tvé (Your Kingdom Come) - written in the six tone system. His many instrumental works consist of sonatas and suites for various instruments written in different systems, 13 quartets, a concerto for viola and violin, etc.. LIST OF WORKS

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Chamber Music

Centenary

Organ Works

Hába: Complete String Quartets

Hába: Piano Works

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Hába: String Quartets Nos. 10 & 12

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Hába: The Complete Piano Works

Hába: String Quartets

Hába: Complete Nonets

String Quartets Vol.2 (Stamic Quartet)

Alois Hába

Hába: Violin Works

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