Re: the Haba school

--- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com,
"daniel_anthony_stearns" <daniel_anthony_stearns@...> wrote:
>
> Facinating article on Czech composer Alois Haba, whose microtonal
> class at the state conservatory in Prague (1923-53) was widely
> influential and represent an important, if largely unwritten,
> chapter in the history of microtonality.
>
> http://tinyurl.com/36mldt
>
> Among his many students in these classes, several of whom went
> on to produce and promote fractional interval music themselves,
> were Ljubica Maric, Jeronimas Kacinskas,

Archived page of a short biography from 1997,
http://tinyurl.com/2lfy4j

> Viktor Ullmann, Slavko Osterc, Constantin Iliev, Jiri Srnka,
> Necil Kazim Akses, Erwin Schulhoff, Karel Reiner, Miroslav
> Ponc, Stepan Lucky, Rudolf Kubin, Jaroslav Jezek, Vaclav
> Dobias, Karel Ancerl, and many others.
>
> http://tinyurl.com/37wglf
>

--- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com, "daniel_anthony_stearns"
<daniel_anthony_stearns@...> wrote:
> Unfortunately, almost all of Haba's
> recordings are very difficult to find and usually quite expensive as
> well.

The complete string quartets are available in a 4-CD box issued last
year. See the discography http://www.xs4all.nl/~huygensf/doc/discs.html

Manuel