GLAZBENI PISAC VJENCESLAV NOVAK
VJENCESLAV NOVAK - THE MUSICAL WRITER

Summary/Abstract: Vjenceslav Novak (1859 – 1905) is generally known to the Croatian cultural public as a writer. It is less well-known that he was one of the few Croatian musicians with an excellent formal higher education in music. In 1886 he acquired the title of organist at the Prague Conservatory, and in 1887 he was a teacher of singing and music theory. Therefore, he was able to provide for himself and his family as a professor of various musical subjects in the Male Teacher-Training School and the school of the Croatian Music Institute in Zagreb. Along with this, from 1888 he published numerous articles in periodicals and monographs for 15 years. These works reveal the wide range of Novak’s professional interests: from musical criticism via theory, pedagogy, methodology, organology and the aesthetics of music, to musical historiography, which, along with the founder of Croatian musicology in general, Franjo Ksaver Kuhač (1834-1911), makes him a leading writer of music from the turn of the 19th into the 20th century.

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