Ana Roner Lavrič

Ana Ivana Jožefa Roner Lavrič (30 December 1869 – 31 August 1957) was a Slovenian organist and music teacher. In her time, she was considered one of the best Slovenian organists. Her mother was an entrepreneur, Josipina Alojzija Melcher von Reuterburg, and her father was a café owner, Nikolaj Roner. She was their eldest child. She also worked as a piano and music teacher, supporting herself with this for several decades in addition to her organ post.

During Christmas 1901, she took up the post of organist and choir director in the . She held this post for more than four decades. In the following years she attended several church-music courses held in Ljubljana by the Cecilian Society (Slovenian Catholic music society). She was an active member of the Cecilian Society and served as its secretary.

In 1908, she took up the post of organist at the . In this post she was the second trained organist after the self-taught Frančiška Gostič. She worked at the Trnovo church for ten years.

On 12 January 1910, she married Anton Lavrič, more than a decade her junior, from Škocjan, who worked as head of the music department at the Catholic Bookshop (later the Yugoslav Bookshop) in Ljubljana, and as choirmaster at the Trnovo and Križanke churches. She was an active member of the Mutual Aid Society of Organists and Choirmasters, serving as its treasurer. Alongside the virtuoso organist and composer Josipina Eleonora Hudovernik, she was considered one of the best Slovenian organists. The Križanke church was also nationalized, and a school for arts and crafts moved into it. As a result, she lost her job as organist. She died on 31 August 1957 in Ljubljana. Less than a month and a half after her, her husband also died.