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Article: Pavel Haas's music for the stage.
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- Czech Music
- Article date:
- September 1, 2003
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Interest in the Brno composer Pavel Haas (1899-1944) is scanty today, to say the least. Only very occasionally do his works appear in concert programmes, and although his one opera The Charlatan [Sarlatan] has been restaged by the State Opera in Prague (1997), it has yet to be produced again in his native Brno. Such interest as has been shown in the composer has tended to stimulated from abroad, where he is known as one of the "Terezin composers"
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Perception of the work of Pavel Haas is in many respects similar to the kind of attention enjoyed by his otherwise much more popular younger brother, the actor Hugo Haas, who lives on in the ...