Franjo Ksaver Kuhač was a Croatian 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.
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Franjo Ksaver Kuhač was a Croatian 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.
Category
Musicians
Type
Singer / Musician
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1834 to 1911 · aged 76
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