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Legacy of Ambro (Ambroz Novak) at the Hvar Heritage Museum: An Overview of the Material as an Early Draft of His Performer, Composer and Critic Profile
Maja Milošević Carić
orcid.org/0000-0001-6620-7619
; Umjetnička akademija Sveučilišta u Splitu, Split, Hrvatska
Abstract
Ambroz (Ambro) Novak (1899-1947) from Hvar was a prominent intellectual, musician, composer, music publicist and critic, jurist by profession. He was involved in a wide range of (public) music activities quite successfully, however only for a short period, during the time of his youth (between 1916 and 1925). Although once shared the stages with prominent Croatian musicians and composers of the so-called interwar period, Novak was completely erased from the cultural memory of Hvar, and generally omitted from the works of Croatian music historiography. The sources that might shed some light on Novak's engagements in different music fields are today preserved among his legacy, kept in the Hvar Heritage Museum (in the city of Hvar). Based on its content (music manuscripts, articles, published concert programs, letters etc.) - previously arranged, catalogized and digitalized by author of this article within the current musicological project of acronym GIDAL (financ. by the Croatian Science Foundation) - Novak's biography, but also his interests and activities in performing and writing (about) music are introduced preliminary in this article. List of archival sources from Novak's legacy is extensively represented here as well, not only as a chronological, quantitative and qualitative review of his musical(-literal) heritage, but also as a starting point for some future research focused on his life and work.
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Publication date:
9.10.2019.
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