Nada Ludvig-Pečar

Nada Ludvig-Pečar (12 May 1929 – 31 March 2008) was a Bosnian composer. Some of her most well-known works include Deset studija, String Quartet in D (1966), Suita hexatonica (1973) and Sappho (1974). She was also the chairperson of the Composers Association of Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1981 and 1982.

Early life and education Nada Ludvig-Pečar was born on 12 May 1929 in Sarajevo. She began her music education at the Music School in Sarajevo in 1939, then continued her studies at the Department for Music Theory and Music Education at the Music High School in Sarajevo from 1945. In 1955, she started studying conducting in Mladen Pozajić's class at the Sarajevo Academy of Music, and then in Lucijan Marija Škerjanc's composition class at the Academy of Music, Ljubljana from 1957. She graduated from there in 1962, and also received her master's degree there in 1966. She died there on 31 March 2008, at the age of 78.