Vinko Žganec
Vinko Žganec (January 22, 1890 - December 12, 1976)ethnomusicologist.
Žganec was born in
of Law in 1919.The
ethnomusicologist Béla Bartók kept in close contact with him while collecting folk songs along the border of Hungary and Croatia. Bartók respected Žganec because of both the accuracy of his research and the notation. Music started to be his primary focus in 1945 when he became the head of the Ethnographic Museum in Zagreb. During the span of his research, Žganec collected, recorded, and wrote down more than 19,000 songs, including many Croatian tamburica; these have been preserved for future generations
to be used and studied. There is some evidence that he collected more than 25,000 songs (15,000 just from his native Međimurje). Some of them were not entirely documented.
Žganec became the first director of the Institute of Folklore Research, and was an active participant in the
students. Similar to Žganec's work was that of Franjo Kuhač
, another man who devoted his life to research on the national cultural heritage.
References
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