Music of Pavel Haas : Taylor & Francis Ltd : 9781138360013 : 25 Jun 2020 : "The Czech composer Pavel Haas (1899-1944) is commonly positioned in the history of twentieth-century music as a representative of Leoés Janâaécek's compositional school and as one of the Jewish composers imprisoned by the Nazis in the concentration campof Terezâin (Theresienstadt). However, the nature of Janâaécek's influence remains largely unexplained and the focus on the context of the Holocaust tends to yield a one-sided view of Haas's oeuvre. The existing scholarship offers limited insight into Haas's compositional idiom and does not sufficiently explain the composer's 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) discussion of Haas's music since the publication of Lubomâir Peduzzi's 'life and work' monograph in 1993. It provides the reader with an enhan