And if I were to approach the matter vaguely chronologically, I would recommend Ciurlionis' piano compositions, the works of the first two Lithuanian avant-gardists Vytautas Bacevicius (brother of Polish composer Grazyna Bacewicz) and Jeronimas Kacinskas (a student of
Alois Haba at the Prague Conservatory and a pioneer of microtonal music in Lithuania).
It could also be argued that as a distinguished aesthetician of the theater, Zich had a rather different take on opera from that of his Czech modernist contemporaries such as Otakar Ostrcil,
Alois Haba, Otakarjeremias, and E.
Earlier in the twentieth century bold efforts were made to forge a discrete melodic and harmonic language out of expanded equal temperament, by
Alois Haba, julian Carrillo and Ivan Wyshnegradsky.
Herrmann, a lifelong friend of composer Hanns Eisler, through whom he met
Alois Haba. Eisler died in 1962, but the East German physicist and the Czech composer kept in touch.
These were the years of Schreker's greatest success and it may come as a surprise that his students, such as Krenek,
Alois Haba, Felix Petryek, and Karol Rathaus, were offered UE contracts well before those of Schoenberg, including Anton Webern and Alban Berg.
Among other things, it presented an as yet unjustly overlooked sixth-tone opera by
Alois Haba, Thy Kingdom Come, composed in 1937-1942 (see CMQ 2018/2), and The Mute Canary, a new chamber one-act opera by Rudolf Komorous, a Czech composer who has long resided in Canada.
In 1912 Schreker was appointed to the Vienna Academy where he had a distinguished class of composition students and performers, among whom were
Alois Haba, Jascha Horenstein, Egon Kornauth, Ernst Krenek, Artur Rodzinski, and Josef Rosenstock.
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Whether as a compendious interpretation of ancient Greek theory of intonation and intervals, as a signal contribution to contemporary music theory, as an approach to the systematic study of tuning systems (taking its place alongside the twentieth-century classics of Julian Carrillo,
Alois Haba, and Partch), or as a stepping-stone from music's past to its possible futures, Divisions of the Tetrachord is an indispensable resource for the serious student of music.
"Soon after arriving in Prague, he met two significant influences in his life: the microtonal composer
Alois Haba (whose classes he attended) and Dr.
A student of
Alois Haba, he lectured in 1927 on the Czech avant-garde to Arnold Schoenberg's composition students at the Preussische Akademie der Kunste, and through Scherchen achieved a certain notoriety for a chamber suite drawn from music for Jean Cocteau's Les Maries de la Tour Eiffel.
The same year saw the launch of separate English, German and Russian six-page pamphlets dedicated to contemporary Czech and Slovak composers, the first one dealing with Jan Cikker, followed over the next few years by titles devoted to
Alois Haba, Pavel Borkovec, Jan Kapr, Vladimir Sommer, Eugen Suchon, Petr Eben, Jan Hanus, Miloslav Kabelac, with more pamphlets, some of them updated, with the total print run of 5-10 thousand copies, ensiling annually.