Alois Hába
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Alois Hába was a Czech composer, music theorist and teacher. He belongs to the important discoverers in modern classical music, and to the major composers of microtonal music, especially using the qua
Hába in 1957
Quarter-tone grand piano (1924) designed by Hába, built by Förster firm; it consists of two independent bodies, features the three manuals (aux. short key/quarter tone higher/normal). (exhibited at Czech Museum of Music)
Sixth-tone harmonium (1937) designed by Hába, built by Förster firm; it features triple-reed, three manuals, two knee levers, and six registers. (exhibited at Czech Museum of Music)
Vítězslav Novák
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Vítězslav Augustín Rudolf Novák was a Czech composer and academic teacher at the Prague Conservatory. Stylistically, he was part of the neo-romantic tradition, and his music is considered an important
Alois Hába
…which he maintained all his life. Hába was dissatisfied by small-town life, and in 1914, he moved to Prague and became a pupil of neoromantic composer Vítězslav Novák. Here he was interested in analysing the works of Claude Debussy, Max Reger, Alexander Scriabin, and Richard Strauss, and in harmonization of Moravian…
Novák in 1899
Vítězslav Novák