Franjo Kuhač

Male, Deceased Person

1834 – 1911

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Who was Franjo Kuhač?

Franjo Ksaver Kuhač was a piano teacher, choral conductor, composer, and comparative musicologist who studied Croatian folk music. Kuhač did a great deal of field work in this area, collecting and publishing 1,600 folk songs. Like Cecil Sharp, who did similar work in Britain and Appalachia, Kuhač published the folk songs with a piano accompaniment.

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Born
Nov 20, 1834
Osijek
Died
Jun 18, 1911
Zagreb

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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