Haas, Pavel: Study for strings (Studie für Streichorchester / Studie pro smyccovy orchestr) (1943) 10'


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"Pavel Haas's Study was written in 1943 in the camp of Terezin, where Haas, like many of the Czech-Jewish intelligentsia, was held by the Nazis before transportation to Auschwitz, where he was murdered in 1944. A one-movement work of considerable power, it flanks a harrowing central adagio with tangled fugues and jagged allegros full of angry cross rhythms. Its quality is undeniable..."
The Guardian