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Pieces For Sixth-Tone Harmonium
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BONUS ITEM: complete booklet
Until recently, the sixth-tone harmonium was just one of the many exhibits in the Czech Museum of Music. After almost a century, however, it is enjoying a renaissance and attracting the interest of the professional public, musicians and composers.BONUS ITEM: complete booklet
The first model of the sixth-tone harmonium was created in the 1920s on the basis of a commission from the pioneer of microtonal music, Alois Hába, whose visions for its construction convinced the company August Förster. The improved model of the harmonium dates from 1936 by the same company. The first Czechoslovak president Masaryk supported the purchase of the new instrument by contributing ten thousand crowns, and the same amount was added by the Ministry of Education and National Enlightenment at the time. The only example of a working sixth-tone harmonium in the world belongs to the collections of the National Museum and is permanently exhibited in the Czech Museum of Music in Prague.
Pianist Miroslav Beinhauer (*1993) is recently the only musician in the world who can play this unique instrument. In 2018, he participated in the premiere of Hába's sixth-tone opera Come Thy Kingdom, followed by the staging and recording of Alois Hába's opus Sixth compositions for sixth-tone harmonium, op. 37, which was the only solo composition for this instrument for more than ninety years. In the last three years, new repertoire for sixth-tone harmonium has been written by renowned Czech and foreign composers.
New compositions were written by Phill Niblock, Klaus Lang, Bernhard Lang, Milan Guštar, Judith Berkson, Idin Samimi Mofakham and Ian Mikyska. The premiere of these compositions took place in August 2023 as part of the Ostrava Days contemporary music festival.
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Hába, K.Lang, Niblock, Berkson, B. Lang, Mofakham, Guštar, Mikyska performed by Miroslav Beinhauer - 5.Adagio - from Six compositions for sixth-tone harmonium, op. 37 (1928) Alois Hába
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Hába, K.Lang, Niblock, Berkson, B. Lang, Mofakham, Guštar, Mikyska performed by Miroslav Beinhauer - Not One And Not Two (2022) Klaus Lang
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Hába, K.Lang, Niblock, Berkson, B. Lang, Mofakham, Guštar, Mikyska performed by Miroslav Beinhauer - 36 Views on Edo (2023) Milan Guštar
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Hába, K.Lang, Niblock, Berkson, B. Lang, Mofakham, Guštar, Mikyska performed by Miroslav Beinhauer - Not the same, not different (2023) Ian Mikyska
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Hába, K.Lang, Niblock, Berkson, B. Lang, Mofakham, Guštar, Mikyska performed by Miroslav Beinhauer - Bent Meanings (2023) Judith Berkson
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Hába, K.Lang, Niblock, Berkson, B. Lang, Mofakham, Guštar, Mikyska performed by Miroslav Beinhauer - Taftāl (2023) Idin Samimi Mofakham
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Hába, K.Lang, Niblock, Berkson, B. Lang, Mofakham, Guštar, Mikyska performed by Miroslav Beinhauer - Loops for Hába (2022) Bernhard Lang
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Hába, K.Lang, Niblock, Berkson, B. Lang, Mofakham, Guštar, Mikyska performed by Miroslav Beinhauer - Harmonius (2022) Phill Niblock
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