Lisinski Page #4

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rewarded. See you soon...

The opponents of the Croatian patriotic

thought did not like any of this.

They pushed through a different decision.

Lisinski's compositions were

to be removed from the program,

and the meaning of the entire

ceremony has now changed.

Instead of Croatian music,

a foreign theater company was to perform

an Italian opera "Lucrezia Borgia".

To make the blow even stronger,

Lisinski was suddenly dismissed

from the Musical Institute.

What those enemies of Croatian

national cause have been striving for,

now came to pass.

Lisinski was finally broken.

Disappointed and bitter, Lisinski

swore never to compose again.

He returned to his low-paid

job as a government clerk.

The Croatian music thus

lost its first great composer.

That unfortunate small-minded

milieu that surrounded Lisinski

was incapable of understanding him.

After losing his music,

Lisinski lived the rest of his life Ionely

and without a purpose, as if in a daze.

A cruel twist of fate destroyed

his most precious dream,

his love for Hedviga.

The storms of his life

finally shattered Lisinski.

Ha, ha...

That fiasco calls for a celebration.

Now you will always be some

lowly clerk, clerk, clerk, clerk...

Snap to it, Lisinski, now is the time...

Who is this Lisinski anyway?...

Lowly clerk, clerk, clerk...

Only a man like Lisinski could

compose the first Croatian opera...

Enough of these dilettantes already...

You, my son, have done a lot

for the Croatian people...

You, my great artist...

- Unpaid supervisor...

All will be well, darling...

You and your Hedviga must get

married here, at my church in Bistrica...

And so, misunderstood and forgotten,

the composer of the first

Croatian opera passed away.

Vatroslav Lisinski's destiny was

similar to that of many great men.

His greatness and the value of his work

were fully appreciated only after his death.

But the great works he left behind

him endure, to this day and beyond.

THE END:

Translation:

Sran Randi

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