Dušan Šestić

Dušan Šestić (; born 1946) is a Bosnian Serb musician and composer; he composed the national anthem of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Early life and education Šestić, a Bosnian Serb, was born in Banja Luka in 1946. He studied the violin at the Music Academy in Belgrade, Serbia.

Career Šestić began his professional career at the JNA Symphony Orchestra in Belgrade, Serbia. He was a musician at the Military Orchestra in Split, Croatia, where he lived from 1984 to 1991. During that time, he also performed for the Split Opera. He also composes children's music, popular music, radio music, and TV music. He also worked in theater.

In the 1990s, in need of money, Šestić composed for the state the national anthem of Bosnia and Herzegovina, whereas some Bosniaks and Bosnian Croats disliked that a Bosnian Serb, such as Šestić, composed it instead of one of their ethnic kinsmen. It is wordless, despite efforts spanning nearly two decades to get lyrics adopted for it. Šestić has expressed his disappointment at its lack of lyrics, having written proposed ones for it which were never adopted. In 2008, he and Benjamin Isović had written lyrics for the composition but they were not adopted.