Franjo Kuhač, Croatian conductor and composer (died 1911)

Franjo Kuhač

Austro-Hungarian musicologist

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…