Alois Hába

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 COMPOSITIONS FOR ORCHESTRA Overture For Orchestra Op. 5 1920 UE Path Of Life Symphonic Fantasy Op. 66 1933 Panton O EdS 20' Wallachian Suite For Orchestra Op. 77 L952-53 CHF 2ó' CONCERTANT COMPOSITIONS Symphonic Fantasy For Piano And Orchestra Op. 8 L920 - 21 CHF 24' Concerto For Violin And Orchestra Op. 83 L954-55 CHF 30' Concerto For Viola And Orchestra Op. 86 L956-57 CHF 30' COMPOSITIONS FOR CHAMBER ENSEMBLES String Quartet No. 1 Op. 4 1918 UE String Quartet No. 2 In The Quarter-Tone System Op. 7 L820 Fantasy For Flute Or Violin And Piano Op. 34 L927-28 CHF 20' Fantasy For Nonet No. 1 In The Twelve-Tone System Op. 40 1931 SHV O EdS Duo For Two Violins In The Sixth-Tone System Op. 49 L937 At Own Expense O Columbia String Quartet No. 7 "Christmas' Op. 73 1950-51 SNKLHU 13' String Quartet No. 9 Op. 79 1952 O EdS 8' Nonet No. 3 Op. 82 L953 SNKLHU O EdS 20' String Quartet No. 11 In The Sixth-Tone System Op. 87 L957 SHV O EdS L2' String Quartet No. 12 In The Quartet-Tone System Op. 80 L959-60 SHV O EdS L3' String Quartet No. 13 Op. 92 L961 SHV O EdS L2' String Quartet No. 14 In The Quarter-Tone System Op. 94 L963 Panton O Panton 11' String Quartet No. 15 Op. 95 L964 O EdS 13' Nonet No. 9 Op. 97 1962-63 String Quartet No. 16 In The Fifth-Tone System Opus 88 1967 Panton O Panton L2' Suite For Bass Clarinet And Piano Op. 100 1869 O Panton COMPOSITIONS FOR SOLO INSTRUMENTS Variations On A Canon By Robert Schumann For Piano Op. L6 1918 UE Deux Morceaux Pour Piano Op. 2 1917 - L8 UE Sonata For Piano Op. 3 1918 UE Six Piano Compositions Op. 6 L920 EdS Fantasy For Violin Solo In The Quarter-Tone System Op. 9a 192l UE O Panton Music For Violin Solo In The Quarter-Tone System Op. 96 1822 UE Toccata Quasi Una Fantasia For Piano Op. 38 1931 CHF O Panton 13' Four Modern Dances For Piano Op. 39 1927 UE Sonata For Quarter-Tone Piano Op. 62 1846-47 CHF 15' Suite For Quarter-Tone Guitar Op 63 1847 CHF 12' Suite For Bassoon Solo Op. 69 1950 CHF Fantasy For Organ Op. 75a 1951 CHF Suite For Violin Solo In The Sixth-Tone System Op. 85a 1955 CHF 10' Suite For Violoncello Solo In The Sixth-Tone System Op. 85b L955 CHF 9' Suite For Dulcimer Op. 8l L960 O EdS 12' Suite For Bass Clarinet Solo Op. 9B 1964 O EdS 12' Suite For Saxophone Solo Op. 99 1968 Six Moods For Piano Op. L02 1971 SONGS Sayings For Children For Medium Voice And Piano Op. 48 L936 Text J. Foltyn At Own Cost To My Beloved Cycle Of Seven Songs For Soprano And Piano Op. 57 1944 Text B. Benesova At Own Cost Five Folk Lovesongs From Moravia For Mezzo-Soprano Op. 58 1944 At Own Cost From The Wise Sayings Of The Slavonic Nations For Children's Or Women's Choir With Piano Accompaniment Op. 84 1945- 55 Text F. L. Celakovsky CHF CHOIRS The Constitution Of 8th May Men's Choir Op. 64 1948 CHF CANTATA
For Peace Cantata For Mixed Choir And Orchestra Op. 68 1949 Text A. Haba CHF STAGE WORKS
Mother Opera In The Quarter-Tone System Op. 35 L927-29 In 10 Scenes Libretto A. Haba Dilia O EdS A New Land Op. 47 L934-36 Opera In 3 Acts. Libretto F. Pujman After F. Gladkov O EdS The Kingdom Come Unemployment Musical Drama In The Sixth-Tone System Op. 50 1941 - 42 In 7 Scenes Libretto A. Haba Arrangement F. Pujman At Own Cost THEORETICAL WORKS
Harmonic Principles Of The Quarter-Tone System Prague HMUB 1922 On The Psychology Of Composition The Laws On Tonic Movement And The Principles Of A New Musical Style Prague HMUB 1925 Von Der Psychologie Der Musikalischen Gestaltung Gesetzmaessigkeit Der Tonbewebung Und Grundlagen Eines Neuen Musikstils UE Vienna L925 Neue Harmonienlehre Des Diatonischen Chromatischen Viertel- Drittel- Sechstel- Und Zwoelftel-Tonsystems Letpzig Kistner - Siegl L927 Vitezslav Novak For His 70th Birthday Prague Vysehrad L940 Mein Weg Zur Viertel- Und Sechsteltonmusik Duesseldorf 1971 read less