
Ivan Eugen Padovec (also known as Johann Padowetz; 17 July 1800 – 4 November 1873) was a Croatian guitar virtuoso. He was born in Varaždin in Habsburg monarchy (now Croatia). He 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.
Among Padowetz's five guitar duets, four of them (op.3, op.10 and op.18) require one terz-guitar.
Padowetz composed a large amount of guitar solos: numerous demanding works in forms of variations and fantasias mainly on operatic themes (most of them published in Vienna and some in Paris), but also a lot of short and easy pieces which mainly remained in manuscripts.