Ivan Padovec


Ivan Eugen Padovec, commonly known as Johann Padowetz, born in the baroque town of Varaždin in Croatia, was a guitar virtuoso, who gave concerts in Zagreb, Vienna, Prague, Budapest, Hamburg, London, etc. He constructed a ten-string guitar. Also, his Theoretisch-praktische Guitarrschule was published by Werner & Comp. in Vienna around 1844.

List of works

Orchestral compositions

  1. Allegro moderato
  2. Andante
  3. Rondo. Allegretto
  1. Allegro moderato
  2. Andante sostenuto
  3. Polacca
Among Padowetz's five guitar duets, four of them require one terz-guitar.
  1. Polonaise Op.3 No.1
  2. Polonaise Op.3 No.2
Padowetz composed a large amount of guitar solos: numerous demanding works in forms of variations and fantasias mainly on operatic themes, but also a lot of short and easy pieces which mainly remained in manuscripts.
  1. Marsch
  2. Monferino
  3. Thema
  4. Polonaise
  5. Ungarischer