Who was Vatroslav Lisinski (1819–1854)? A composer—and ideologue of Illyrism, the South Slavic campaign against Austrian hegemony; a Croatian nationalist, and—like his Italian counterparts of the Risorgimento—very much a child of his time. He is credited with the first Croatian national opera, “Ljubav i zloba” (“Love and Malice”), and is the namesake of the Zagreb Concert Hall—as was pointed {…}