Pavel Haas

Biography

Pavel Haas received its first true musical education at 14 years with Brünn then of 1919 to 1921, he studied the composition with the Academy of Brown with Jan Kunc and Vilém Petrželka and then two years at the music school of Leoš Janáček.

Enough even criticizes screw-with screw of him, Haas granted a Opus to only 18 of 50 works which it composed in twenty years, regarding them as completed. Whereas he still worked in the trade of his father, he wrote works of all kinds: symphonic works, piano music, of works choral societies, the Lied er, the chamber music, the film music and scene as well as a opera " Scharlatan" . Its music, which draws its roots in Bohemia and Moravie, is sometimes coloured Hebraic melodies.

Haas in December 1941 is off-set with the Concentration camp of Theresienstadt. It composed there at least eight works, of which " Four Lieder according to poetries chinoises" ( Vier Lieder nach Worten chinesischer Poetry ). Haas was gauze one day after its arrival with the camp of Auschwitz in October 1944.

Its large " Symphony " remain unfinished. It was supplemented in 1994 by Zdeněk Zouhar by respecting its style.

See too

List of the type-setters persecuted during the Nazism

External bond

http://www1.uni-hamburg.de/musik/exil/texte/lieder/haas.html

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