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Ottokar Novacek
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Ottokar Eugen Nováček (May 13, 1866, Fehertemplom, Hungary – February 3, 1900, New York City) was an Hungarian violinist and composer of Czech descent and is perhaps best known for his work Perpetuum Mobile (Perpetual Motion). Novacek studied successfully with his father Martin Joseph Nováček, with Jakob Dant in Vienna (1880-83), and with Henry Schradieck and Brodsky at the Leipzig Conservatory, where he won the Mendelssohn Prize in 1885. He played in the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra and in the Brodsky Quartet, originally as second violin and later as viola. He subsequently emigrate… read more
