Alois Hába

Alois Hába (21 June 1893, Vizovice, Moravia ? 18 November 1973, Prague) was a Czech composer, musical theorist and teacher. He is primarily known for his microtonal compositions, especially using the quarter tone scale, though he used others such as sixth-tones and twelfth-tones.

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Hába came from musical family, his brother Karel Hába was also a composer, and their father was a folk musician. He began to compose during the studies in Krom??í? (1908?1912). He was a student of composer Vít?zslav Novák in 1914?1915 at the Prague Conservatory, graduated with Sonata for violin and piano. Hába studied also at the Imperial Academy of Music and the Performing Arts in Vienna (1918?1920) (among his teachers was Richard Stöhr), and in Berlin 1920?1922). In 1920, as a student of Franz Schreker, he composed his first quarter-tone work - String Quartet No. 2. He was supported by Josef Suk and with his help was able to found a microtonal department of teaching and research at the Prague Conservatory in 1924. In 1923?1948 he worked first as an instructor, later (since 1936) as professor at the Prague Conservatory. During World War II, Hába was endangered by Nazis, because he tried to help his Jewish pupils. After the war he lived in peace in the Socialist Republic of Czechoslovakia. He died in Prague in 1973.

Vizovice: Vizovice (; ) is a town with about 4,598 inhabitants in the Zlín Region, Czech Republic....

Moravia: Moravia (Czech and Slovak: Morava, German: M?hren, Polish: Morawy, Hungarian: Morvaorsz?g) is an historical region in the east of the Czech Republic. It takes its name from the River Morava which rises in the north-west of the region....

Prague: Prague (Czech: Praha, see also other names) is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic. Situated on the Vltava river in central Bohemia, it is home to approximately 1.2 million people. (It can be derived from jobs statistics, however, that an additional 300,000 work there without having r...

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