About Vatroslav Lichtenegger
Lived 1809 – 1885 (aged 75–76). Vatroslav Lichtenegger was a Croatian poet, conductor, composer and writer.
Vatroslav Lichtenegger (1809–1885) was a Croatian music teacher and composer.
Born in Podčetrtek, he moved to Zagreb around 1827, and became a choralist in the Zagreb Cathedral as well as a teacher at the Croatian Music Institute. Lichtenegger was a teacher of singing and organist of the Zagreb Cathedral. He scored and harmonized the song Horvatska domovina by Josip Runjanin for a male choir in 1861. In 1891, the song won a competition to become the Croatian national anthem.
He is buried in the Mirogoj cemetery in Zagreb. His daughter was famous opera singer Mathilde Mallinger.
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Croatian poet (1809–1885)
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Vatroslav Lichtenegger was born in 1809 in Slovenia.
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Vatroslav Lichtenegger died on 15 April 1885 in Zagreb.
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Vatroslav Lichtenegger was a poet, conductor, composer and writer.
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Vatroslav Lichtenegger was Croatian.
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