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Alois Hába

1893 - 1973

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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 to the 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 microtonal 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Alois Hába is the 580th most popular composer (up from 618th in 2019), the 268th most popular biography from Czechia (up from 278th in 2019) and the 27th most popular Czech Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Alois Hába ranks 580 out of 1,451. Before him are Alexandre Tansman, Dora Pejačević, Eleni Karaindrou, Florian Leopold Gassmann, Guillaume Lekeu, and Pavel Haas. After him are Johann Christoph Pepusch, Amy Beach, Hervé, Tikhon Khrennikov, Manos Hatzidakis, and Jacques-Martin Hotteterre.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1893, Alois Hába ranks 98. Before him are Dorothy L. Sayers, Clark Ashton Smith, William Moulton Marston, Mina Witkojc, Alfréd Schaffer, and Gillis Grafström. After him are Oscar Torp, Edsel Ford, Charlotte Bühler, Ivan Panfilov, Edna Parker, and Alexander Korda. Among people deceased in 1973, Alois Hába ranks 94. Before him are Merian C. Cooper, Hans Globke, Jarno Saarinen, Soong Ai-ling, Joseph Szigeti, and Betty Grable. After him are Fuad Chehab, Frank Jack Fletcher, Johannes Aavik, Jack Hawkins, Tanzan Ishibashi, and Alexander Orlov.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Alois Hába ranks 268 out of 1,200. Before him are Erhard Raus (1889), Jan Hammer (1948), Anna Chromý (1940), Heinrich Wilhelm Schott (1794), Florian Leopold Gassmann (1729), and Pavel Haas (1899). After him are Beatrice of Luxembourg (1305), Joseph Škoda (1805), Bořivoj II, Duke of Bohemia (1064), Karel Reisz (1926), Alois Eliáš (1890), and Karl Fritzsch (1903).

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Among COMPOSERS In Czechia

Among composers born in Czechia, Alois Hába ranks 27. Before him are Vítězslav Novák (1870), Franz Xaver Richter (1709), Erwin Schulhoff (1894), Karel Svoboda (1938), Florian Leopold Gassmann (1729), and Pavel Haas (1899). After him are František Brixi (1732), Oskar Nedbal (1874), Paul Wranitzky (1756), Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer (1656), Adalbert Gyrowetz (1763), and Josef Bohuslav Foerster (1859).

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