Martin Nováček

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Martin Novacek
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Martin Joseph Nováček (born November 10, 1834 in Horaschdowitz , † March 19, 1906 ) was a Bohemian music teacher, conductor and musician.

Nováček became organist and choirmaster at the Roman Catholic Church of Bela Crkva (Weißkirchen) at the age of 18 . He went on concert tours with the choir that took him to Dresden (1865). He opened a private music school and a singing music school for children in Weißkirchen. His children, four sons and two daughters, were born here.

In 1871 Nováček moved to Timisoara , where he and Wilhelm Franz Speer (1823–1898) were in charge of the Philharmonic Society in 1873, which he held until 1875, then 1881–1882 and 1898–1905. In 1874 and 1875 he held several concerts here, where works by Palestrina , Johann Sebastian and Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach , Alessandro Stradella and Luigi Boccherini were performed and he played his own compositions on the viola d'Amore. From 1875 he organized chamber music concerts with Ferdinand Prenner , Franz Sedlmayer , Max Weiß , Eduard Gerger and Wilhelm Franz Speer. As cathedral music director he also composed works for the cathedral choir.

With his three eldest sons, Nováček founded the String Quartet Chamber Music Association of the Nováček Family in 1877 , with which he toured Bohemia and Hungary and had successful performances in Karlovy Vary and on Budapest's Margaret Island.

Nováček's four sons, Ottokar , Rudolf , Karl and Victor , became known as musicians themselves.

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