Alois H ba (June 21, 1893 - November 18, 1973) was a Czech composer primarily known for his microtonal compositions, especially using the quarter tone scale, though he used others such as sixth-tones and twelfth-tones. His brother Karel H was a composer, and their father was a musician.
He was a student of composer Vitezslav Nov k. 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. He also commissioned quarter and sixth tone instruments such as trumpets and pianos. His best known work is the opera Mother.
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Haba is so far the only composer to have written microtonal compositions on a melodic-harmonic base, in all forms of modern music and for the most varied instrumental and vocal content.
Haba does not see these microtones of his as new interval values but as alterations in scale and non-scale intervals of the half-tone system by which he wishes only to emphasise the content aspect of his music.
For Haba the composer and the theorist it was typical that he did not link this humanistic mission of his work with ephemeral concessions which would have weakened the clarity and penetration of the style and language of his music.
Brother Alois (né Alois Löser) (born June 11 1954) in Bayern, Germany is the Prior of the Taizé Community who succeeded Brother Roger after the latter's death on August 16 2005
Brother Alois was born in 1954 in Bavaria, of Czechoslovakian parents and raised in Stuttgart.
Brother Alois is a Catholic, in contrast to his Protestant predecessor, Brother Roger.
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