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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 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alois Hába has received more than 91,140 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Alois Hába is the 618th most popular composer (down from 609th in 2019), the 278th most popular biography from Czechia (down from 273rd in 2019) and the 26th most popular Czech Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Alois Hába ranks 618 out of 1,451. Before him are Helmut Lachenmann, Kurmangazy Sagyrbaev, Ildebrando Pizzetti, Kurt Atterberg, Robert Fuchs, and Morton Feldman. After him are Francesco Canova da Milano, Jeremiah Clarke, Léon Boëllmann, Johann Nikolaus Forkel, Pancho Vladigerov, and Tomaso Antonio Vitali.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1893, Alois Hába ranks 105. Before him are Israel Joshua Singer, Mikheil Gelovani, Luis Otero, Haykanoush Danielyan, Rahul Sankrityayan, and Léopold Szondi. After him are Beatrice Wood, Harold Laski, Dorothy L. Sayers, Farabundo Martí, Cedric Gibbons, and Ba Maw. Among people deceased in 1973, Alois Hába ranks 101. Before him are Clas Thunberg, Marthe Bibesco, Merian C. Cooper, Fuad Chehab, Helen Parkhurst, and Gene Krupa. After him are Tarsila do Amaral, Lidia Ruslanova, Bobby Darin, Laurence Harvey, Dmytro Dontsov, and Adolfo Ruiz Cortines.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Alois Hába ranks 278 out of 1,200. Before him are Franz Xaver Richter (1709), Soběslav I, Duke of Bohemia (1075), Dominik Duka (1943), Václav Vorlíček (1930), Alois Jirásek (1851), and Judith of Bohemia (1056). After him are Friedrich von Berchtold (1781), Otto V, Margrave of Brandenburg-Salzwedel (1246), Maria Restituta Kafka (1894), Karel Hynek Mácha (1810), Anne of Bohemia, Duchess of Silesia (1204), and Josef Blösche (1912).

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Among COMPOSERS In Czechia

Among composers born in Czechia, Alois Hába ranks 26. Before him are Zdeněk Fibich (1850), Karel Svoboda (1938), Erwin Schulhoff (1894), Pavel Haas (1899), Leopold Koželuch (1747), and Franz Xaver Richter (1709). After him are Anton Schindler (1795), Otakar Ševčík (1852), Johann Joseph Abert (1832), Josef Bohuslav Foerster (1859), Florian Leopold Gassmann (1729), and Antonio Rosetti (1746).

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