JOSIP RUNJANIN

Officer of the Austro-Hungarian army and the Croatian national anthem composer.

He attended school in Vinkovci and Karlowitz, and then opted for a military rank.
As a representative of the First Regiment Banal came in 1865. the Croatian Parliament. After retirement he withdrew from public života.Runjanin musical training acquired in the military chaplain in Glina, and played the piano. As the imperial cadet serving in Glina, where he often dropped into society Illyrian patriot who held literary gatherings and read the works of writers of Illyrian. There is Runjanin first heard the song Mihanovićeva "Horvatska homeland." Not quite sure whether Runjanin melody composed by her, but such thinking is pervasive in the second half of the 19th century. The exact year of origin is not known, but it usually takes the 1848th
The book Famous Croats and deserving of the released 1925th in Zagreb, p. 232nd states: "... God 1840th former cadets in Glina ishitrio the famous hymn" Our Beautiful Homeland "by Donizetti aria melody of" O sole piu ratte "from the third act of the opera" Lucia di Lammermoor "..."
in 1861. ukajdio a singing teacher and organist at the Cathedral Church of Zagreb Vatroslav Lichtenegger tune songs. As soon as it is Lichtenegger ukajdio and arranged for male choir and music society of spiritual youth in Zagreb published in his "Sbirka", the song became popular.
song is called Croatian anthem first sung at the opening ceremony of the Croatian-Slavonian Exhibition in Zagreb 1891st, when none of the authors no longer alive.