KORNELIJE KOVAČ (Serbian Cyrillic: Корнелије Ковач, Hungarian: Kovács Kornell) (born January 1, 1942 in Niš, Serbia) is a famous Serbian composer. Born in Niš during World War II to a Hungarian father and a Serbian mother, Kovač came from a prominent artistic family - his grandfather was a conductor, his father a music professor and a violinist, his mother a singer in the opera choir. KORNELIJE KOVAČ received his early music education at his hometown's Subotica College Of Music