Branko Mihaljević, Date of Birth, Date of Death
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Croatian composer and journalist
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About Branko Mihaljević
- Branko Mihaljevic (Zagreb, 19 January 1931 – Osijek, 19 October 2005) was a composer, writer, journalist and radio editor. He spent his career, starting in 1952, in Osijek as editor of music and music-documentary programs of Radio-Osijek, and as head of the Center of Culture University, which provided adult education.
- One of the songs which he helped become popular is a children's song "Zeko i potocic".
- He also wrote a song "Moj Osijek" which many people accepted as a town anthem.
- He wrote more than twenty children's operettas for the Osijek children theatre, now named "Children theatre Branko Mihaljevic"), most based on librettos of Ratko Zvrko.
- He wrote the first Slavonian musical "Slavonska rapsodija", which is based on authentic folklore.
- One of the things for which he will be best remembered is a children's song he wrote in 1954, about a rabbit and a frozen stream, for one of his events which was short of children's songs.
- The album which includes this song is the bestselling children's album in Croatia, for which he received Croatia Records platinum record. As a journalist, he documented the autochthon culture and art of Slavonia and Baranja, for which he received the "Golden pen of the year" from the Croatian Journalists' Association.
- He also received the Order of Danica Hrvatska with the face of Marko Marulic medal and the Osjecko-baranjska županija prize for a life opus in the area of culture.
- He received "Reward city of Osijek" twice (1962, 1979.) He was buried 21 September 2005.
- One of his last works was the book, "Tragovima osjecke glazbe", published in 2002, in which, in a nostalgic and warm style, he explores the origins of Osijek musicology.
- His son, Mario Mihaljevic, is a composer of pop-music and a writer, and his grandson Branimir Mihaljevic is a singer and composer too.
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