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Jaroslav Křička
Jaroslav Křička
Czech conductor, music educator and composer
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Viktor Ullmann
Viktor Ullmann
Austrian composer
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Bruce Mather
Bruce Mather
Canadian composer
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Karel Ančerl
Karel Ančerl
Czech conductor, composer and director conductor of Czech Philharmonic
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Maurice Ohana
Maurice Ohana
Anglo-French composer
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Antonín Dvořák
Antonín Dvořák
Czech composer (1841-1904)
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Bedřich Smetana
Bedřich Smetana
Czech composer
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Georg Friedrich Haas
Georg Friedrich Haas
Austrian composer
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Martinů Quartet
Martinů Quartet
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Anton Reicha
Anton Reicha
Czech-born French composer
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Jaroslav Krček
Jaroslav Krček
Czech conductor, composer and musician
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Othmar Schoeck
Othmar Schoeck
Swiss composer (1886-1957)
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Erwin Schulhoff
Erwin Schulhoff
Czech composer and pianist
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Leopold Koželuch
Leopold Koželuch
Czech music educator, composer and pianist
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Josef Suk
Josef Suk
Czech composer and violinist (1874-1935)
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George Onslow
George Onslow
French composer
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Ferruccio Busoni
Ferruccio Busoni
Italian composer, pianist, conductor, editor, writer, and piano teacher
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George Whitefield Chadwick
George Whitefield Chadwick
American composer
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Dean Drummond
Dean Drummond
American composer
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Czech music educator and composer
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Member of, past and present
Academy of Arts of the GDR

Academy of Arts of the GDR

Hába in 1957

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 mictrotonal 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. He also had special keyboard and woodwind instruments constructed that were capable of playing quarter-tone scales.