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Jun 21, 1893 Vizovice, Zlín Region, Czech Republic Died on 18 Nov 1973 (aged 80)
Czech music educator and composer
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About Alois Hába
- Alois Hába (21 June 1893 – 18 November 1973) was a Czech composer, music theorist and teacher.
- He belongs to the important discoverers in modern classical music, and major composers of microtonal music, especially using the quarter-tone scale, though he used others such as sixth-tones (e.g., in the 5th, 10th and 11th String Quartets), fifth-tones (Sixteenth String Quartet), and twelfth-tones.
- From the other mictrotonal conceptions, he discussed a "three-quarter tone" system (see three-quarter tone flat and the neutral second) in his theoretical works but he used scales in this tuning in sections of some of his compositions.
- In his prolific career, Hába composed three operas, an enormous collection of chamber music including 16 string quartets, piano, organ and choral pieces, some orchestral works and songs.
- He also had special keyboard and woodwind instruments constructed that were capable of playing quarter-tone scales.
