COMPOSER

Pavel Haas

1899 - 1944

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Pavel Haas (21 June 1899 – 17 October 1944) was a Czech composer who was murdered during the Holocaust. He was an exponent of Leoš Janáček's school of composition, and also utilized elements of folk music and jazz. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pavel Haas has received more than 122,691 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia. Pavel Haas is the 566th most popular composer (down from 473rd in 2019), the 263rd most popular biography from Czechia (down from 217th in 2019) and the 23rd most popular Czech Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Pavel Haas ranks 566 out of 1,451Before him are John Blow, Friedrich Wieck, Philippe Herreweghe, Bernd Alois Zimmermann, Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, and Georg Christoph Wagenseil. After him are Ferdinando Paer, Tommaso Traetta, Neville Marriner, Franz Doppler, Wilhelm Stenhammar, and Fikret Amirov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1899, Pavel Haas ranks 102Before him are Hans Jeschonnek, Wolf Messing, Nicolas Frantz, Princess Antonia of Luxembourg, Wilhelm Röpke, and Mart Stam. After him are Jimmie Angel, S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike, Marcel Dalio, Konstantinos Tsatsos, Walter Lantz, and Ramon Novarro. Among people deceased in 1944, Pavel Haas ranks 119Before him are Hans Krása, Paul Masson, Bruno Lüdke, Tanya Savicheva, Frank Marshall, and Fritz Pfeffer. After him are Takeo Takagi, Musa Cälil, Josef Bürckel, Adelbert Schulz, Paul von Hase, and Kaj Munk.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Pavel Haas ranks 263 out of 1,200Before him are Jean-Gaspard Deburau (1796), Dana Zátopková (1922), Wojciech Żywny (1756), Otto Wichterle (1913), Alois Eliáš (1890), and Vilém Mathesius (1882). After him are Jan Stráský (1940), Pavel Kohout (1928), Lubomír Štrougal (1924), Svatopluk, Duke of Bohemia (1100), Joseph Wenzel I, Prince of Liechtenstein (1696), and Rudolf Weigl (1883).

Among COMPOSERS In Czechia

Among composers born in Czechia, Pavel Haas ranks 23Before him are Jan Ladislav Dussek (1760), Johann Baptist Wanhal (1739), Vítězslav Novák (1870), Zdeněk Fibich (1850), Karel Svoboda (1938), and Erwin Schulhoff (1894). After him are Leopold Koželuch (1747), Franz Xaver Richter (1709), Alois Hába (1893), Anton Schindler (1795), Otakar Ševčík (1852), and Johann Joseph Abert (1832).