Pavel Haas

Pavel Haas (1899-1944), one of Leoš Janácek’s most talented pupils, composed his Wind Quintet op. 10 in 1929. This work was issued by the Prague publisher Edition Sádlo in 1934, and is one of the few...

Sopran und Klavier

In this demanding composition for male choir from 1929, Haas set to music, in an original way and with great creative imagination, a text by the poet Dalibor Chalupa from Brno which portrays the colou...

Pavel Haas wrote his Suite for Oboe and Piano in 1939, as Hitler's armies were marching across Europe. The music expresses his bitterness over the dark events unfolding around him, but also reflects a...

Pavel Haas was one of Leoš Janácek's most gifted students. His String Quartet No. 2 'From the Monkey Mountains' is considered to be one of the first high points of his oeuvre. In this work, Haas combi...

At the age of fourteen, Pavel Haas began systematic musical studies in Brno where he worked his whole life and had a decisive influence on the town's cultural scene. The first two songs from the prese...

Although the life of Pavel Haas (1899-1944) found a violent end in the horrors of Auschwitz, his music survived and is increasingly attracting the interest of today's musicians and scholars. Now, for...

Only three years separate the composition of the quartets by Leo(s< Janácek and Pavel Haas - and it's hard to imagine two works by mentor and student in the same genre which could be so different from...

In its focus on the repertoire of composers who fell victim to the totalitarian systems of the 20th century, eda records sought to avoid labeling them with catchwords such as 'verfemt' or 'entartet' (...

Pavel Haas (1899-1944), one of Leoš Janácek’s most talented pupils, composed his Wind Quintet op. 10 in 1929. This work was issued by the Prague publisher Edition Sádlo in 1934, and is one of the few...