The Music of Pavel Haas - 9781032235622

Taylor & Francis

The Music of Pavel HaasAnalytical and Hermeneutical Studies\nAuthor(s): Martin ?urda\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781032235622, 978-1032235622\nSynopsis\nThe Czech composer Pavel Haas [tel] is commonly positioned in the history of twentieth-century music as a representative of Leo Janceks compositional school and as one of the Jewish composers imprisoned by the Nazis in the concentration camp of Terezn (Theresienstadt). However, the nature of Janceks influence remains largely unexplained and the focus on the context of the Holocaust tends to yield a one-sided view of Haass oeuvre. The existing scholarship offers limited insight into Haass compositional idiom and does not sufficiently explain the composers position with respect to broader aesthetic trends and artistic networks in inter-war Czechoslovakia and beyond. This book is the first attempt to provide a comprehensive (albeit necessarily selective) discussi.