Pavel Haas was a gifted young composer and student of Leoš Janácek whose string quartets are deemed as good as any that have been written. However, Haas was not fated to have a long and industrious career. Deported from then-Czechoslovakia to Auschwitz in 1941, he was killed there in 1944. This young string quartet, formed of violinists Veronika Jaruskova and Maria Fuxova, violist Pavel Nikl and cellist Peter Jarusek, pay tribute to the composer in their music and nomenclature.