 
Alois Haba: The Complete Piano Works - Miroslav Beinhauer
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              - Supraphon
- June 6, 2025
    Alois Haba has gone down in the history of 20th-century music as  an experimenter. He studied in Vienna and Berlin under Franz Schreker,  studied the tonal principles of non-European music, and developed his  own theory of micro-intervallic music. However, his enthusiasm for  microtonal music narrowed the perception of his creative legacy solely  to it's experimental component, although more than half of his works are  compositions in the usual system of semitones. As he himself said, he was  trying "to find the path from non-traditional training to artistically  independent creative work with strongly altered harmony and melody in  order to arrive at a personal means of expression following the line leading  from Bach to Schumann and on to Reger." He achieved this goal in  the Sonata, Op. 3, for which he received much praise from Schreker, while  Vitezslav Novak "with condescending humour called it a 'sonata for three  hands'". Erwin Schulhoff premiered the Two Grotesque Pieces in 1922 in  Berlin alongside compositions by Satie, Casella, and Stravinsky, and  according to a critic, "Haba's compositions made a far more authentic  impression than much that surrounded them." After the Toccata quasi  una fantasia (1931), Haba returned to writing piano music one last time  40 years later at the end of his life with his Six Moods. As a student in  Vienna and Ghent, the pianist Miroslav Beinhauer focused on music of  the 20th and 21st centuries. He was introduced to Haba through his  compositions for sixth-tone harmonium (Beinhauer is the only player of  this instrument, created by Haba), and he went on to study Haba's complete  works for "ordinary" piano as well. These works are little known and worthy  of attention.  The first complete recording of Haba's works for "ordinary" piano.  Haba surprisingly without micro-intervals
  
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Release Date: June 06, 2025 
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UPC: 099925435721 
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Catalog Number: SU4357-2 
-  Label: Supraphon 
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Number of Discs: 2 
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      Composer: Alois Haba 
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	Performer: Miroslav Beinhauer 
 
          
        