Vjenceslav Novak

Vjenceslav Novak was born in Senj in 1859, to a father who was a merchant from Bohemia and a mother from the town, of a Bavarian family. He lost his father at the age of nine, obtained a teaching diploma in Zagreb in 1879, taught for a few years in his native town, then left, with government aid, for the conservatory in Prague, from which he returned as an organist. A music teacher in Zagreb, he taught musical history and aesthetics there, edited two journals and produced the first textbooks of the kind in Croatian. Tubercular and burdened with children, he wrote to make a living. He died in Zagreb in 1905, at the age of forty-six.

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• NovelPosljednji StipančićiVjenceslav Novak · 1899not translated into EnglishLiteraturePublic domain