Vatroslav Lisinski
Vatroslav Lisinski (8 July 1819 – 31 May 1854) was a Croatian composer.
Vatroslav Lisinski

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- Name
- Vatroslav Lisinski
- Birth Name
- Ignatius Fuchs
- Born
- 8 July 1819
- Birthplace
- Zagreb, Kingdom of Croatia, Austrian Empire
- Died
- 31 May 1854
- Full name
- Ignaz Fuchs.
- Nationality
- Austrian Empire.
- Occupation
- composer and academic musician.
- Fields
- opera.
- Languages
- Croatian.
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Vatroslav Lisinski (8 July 1819 – 31 May 1854) was a Croatian composer.
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Vatroslav Lisinski (1819–1854) was an Austrian academic musician and composer. Born Ignaz Fuchs in Zagreb, the academic musician died in Zagreb.
Genres include opera. Languages used include Croatian.
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• Name — Vatroslav Lisinski • Birth Name — Ignatius Fuchs • Born — 8 July 1819 • Birthplace — Zagreb, Kingdom of Croatia, Austrian Empire • Died — 31 May 1854 • Place of death — Zagreb, Kingdom of Croatia, Austrian Empire
Biography
Biography
Lisinski was born Ignatius Fuchs to a German Jewish family. He would later change his name to Vatroslav Lisinski, which is a Croatian calque of his original name. For a time he worked as a clerk at the Tabula Banalis in Zagreb. Lisinski composed the first Croatian opera, Love and Malice (1846), which he wrote at the urging of Alberto Ognjen Štriga, and Porin (1851) as well as numerous works for orchestra, choir and soloists. He was also one of the founders of Illyrism, a movement that advocated the importance of Croatian and more generally South Slavic cultural heritage, as a reaction to Magyarisation during the Austro-Hungarian rule. Lisinski died in Zagreb on 31 May 1854 and was buried at the Mirogoj Cemetery.
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Vatroslav Lisinski is recorded as composer and academic musician. Recorded at birth as Ignaz Fuchs.
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Vatroslav Lisinski died at Zagreb.
Legacy
In 1944, Oktavijan Miletić directed a movie about him, Lisinski (film). The Vatroslav Lisinski Concert Hall was named after him in 1973. The international train EN 498/499 connecting Zagreb and Munich is named Lisinski, after the composer.
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- Wikidata, structured authority record Q1277066: Vatroslav Lisinski
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- MusicBrainz artist record for Vatroslav Lisinski
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- 1.Beus-Richembergh, Goran. Croatian God German. Matica hrvatska.
- 2.Polimac, Nenad. Titula izdanja godine za blistavo restaurirani film. Jutarnji list. 2009-12-23.
- 3.Kalogjera-Brkić, Ivana. I'm not minister for the money, I already have my millions. Jutarnji list. 2009-07-26.
- 4.Opera.
- 5.Archives of Yugoslavia. Himna.
- 6.Gradska groblja Zagreb: Vatroslav Lisinski - pod ilir, Mirogoj RKT-908-PAVVEL-1.
- 7.EuroNight Lisinski: Stuttgart 🇩🇪 and Munich 🇩🇪 to Ljubljana 🇸🇮 and Zagreb 🇭🇷 by sleeper train – rail-away.com. rail-away.com. 21 October 2023.
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