Zajc, Ivan (1832–1914)

Croatian composer and conductor. He was a pupil of his father, a bandmaster in the Austrian army, and of Lauro Rossi at the Milan Conservatory. He lived at Fiume and Vienna. From 1870 he was conductor at the theatre and director of the Conservatory at Zagreb.

Works 15 Croatian operas, Italian opera Amelia (after Schiller's Räuber, 1860) and others, 15 German and Croatian operettas including Sonnambula (produced Vienna, 1868); oratorio The Fall of Man; church music including 19 masses and four requiems; songs.