Franjo Kuhač

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.

Kuhač was born in Osijek on 20 November 1834 in a German family as Franz Xaver Koch.

Most of the Croatian musicological etymology was introduced by Kuhač when he translated Johann Christian Lobe's Katechismus der Musik.

He published the following books: Kuhač became well known for tracing similarities between the Croatian folk tunes he collected and various themes in the music of Joseph Haydn.