Alois Haba: The Complete Piano Works - Miroslav Beinhauer

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Supraphon
Release Date
June 6, 2025
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Alois Haba
    • PERFORMER
      Miroslav Beinhauer
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      June 06, 2025
    • UPC
      099925435721
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      SU4357-2
    • LABEL
      Supraphon
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      2
    • GENRE
      Piano
    Works ⌄

    1. I. Andante con duolo

      Composer: Alois Hába

      Performer: Miroslav Beinhauer

    2. II. Scherzo

      Composer: Alois Hába

      Performer: Miroslav Beinhauer

    3. III. Tempo di menuetto

      Composer: Alois Hába

      Performer: Miroslav Beinhauer

    4. IV. Rondo

      Composer: Alois Hába

      Performer: Miroslav Beinhauer

    5. No. 1. Allegretto

      Composer: Alois Hába

      Performer: Miroslav Beinhauer

    6. No. 2. Andante

      Composer: Alois Hába

      Performer: Miroslav Beinhauer

    7. No. 3. Allegro scherzando

      Composer: Alois Hába

      Performer: Miroslav Beinhauer

    8. Variace na kánon od Roberta Schumanna (Variations on a Canon of Robert Schumann), Op. 1b

      Composer: Alois Hába

      Performer: Miroslav Beinhauer

    9. No. 1. Scherzo

      Composer: Alois Hába

      Performer: Miroslav Beinhauer

    10. No. 2. Intermezzo

      Composer: Alois Hába

      Performer: Miroslav Beinhauer

    11. I. Allegro moderato

      Composer: Alois Hába

      Performer: Miroslav Beinhauer

    12. II. Andante cantabile

      Composer: Alois Hába

      Performer: Miroslav Beinhauer

    13. III. Allegro non troppo

      Composer: Alois Hába

      Performer: Miroslav Beinhauer

    14. No. 1. Allegro agitato

      Composer: Alois Hába

      Performer: Miroslav Beinhauer

    15. No. 2. Andante cantabile

      Composer: Alois Hába

      Performer: Miroslav Beinhauer

    16. No. 3. Allegretto

      Composer: Alois Hába

      Performer: Miroslav Beinhauer

    17. No. 4. Tempo di marcia

      Composer: Alois Hába

      Performer: Miroslav Beinhauer

    18. No. 5. Lento dolce con molta espressione

      Composer: Alois Hába

      Performer: Miroslav Beinhauer

    19. No. 6. Allegro risoluto

      Composer: Alois Hába

      Performer: Miroslav Beinhauer

    20. No. 1. Intermezzo: Tempo comodo

      Composer: Alois Hába

      Performer: Miroslav Beinhauer

    21. No. 2. Tempo di polka

      Composer: Alois Hába

      Performer: Miroslav Beinhauer

    22. Romance

      Composer: Alois Hába

      Performer: Miroslav Beinhauer

    23. Waltz

      Composer: Alois Hába

      Performer: Miroslav Beinhauer

    24. No. 1. Shimmy-Blues

      Composer: Alois Hába

      Performer: Miroslav Beinhauer

    25. No. 2. Blues

      Composer: Alois Hába

      Performer: Miroslav Beinhauer

    26. No. 3. Boston

      Composer: Alois Hába

      Performer: Miroslav Beinhauer

    27. No. 4. Tango

      Composer: Alois Hába

      Performer: Miroslav Beinhauer

    28. Shimmy-Fox

      Composer: Alois Hába

      Performer: Miroslav Beinhauer

    29. Toccata quasi una fantasia, Op. 38

      Composer: Alois Hába

      Performer: Miroslav Beinhauer

    30. No. 1. Allegro energico

      Composer: Alois Hába

      Performer: Miroslav Beinhauer

    31. No. 2. Andante cantabile

      Composer: Alois Hába

      Performer: Miroslav Beinhauer

    32. No. 3. Allegro molto pesante

      Composer: Alois Hába

      Performer: Miroslav Beinhauer

    33. No. 4. Allegretto scherzando

      Composer: Alois Hába

      Performer: Miroslav Beinhauer

    34. No. 5. Moderato cantabile

      Composer: Alois Hába

      Performer: Miroslav Beinhauer

    35. No. 6. Allegro risoluto

      Composer: Alois Hába

      Performer: Miroslav Beinhauer


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