Two cycles (Japanese Spring, five songs to texts from the collection Japanisher Frühling; Fifteen Songs)

Žiga Hirschler, composer and music critic, was born in Velka Trnovitica by Bjelovar on March 21, 1894, and died tragically in the concentration camp of Jasenovac in the autumn of 1941. His institutional musical education started in 1910 in the school of the Croatian Music Institute in Zagreb, as regular pupil of composition and orchestration in the class of Vjekoslav Rosenberg Ružić. The composing oeuvre of Žiga Hirschler came to 37 works, 19 of them instrumental, and 18 vocal and instrumental, mainly for the stage. The two cycles Japanese Spring, Five Songs to Texts from the Collection Japanisher Frühling and Fifteen Songs for Voice and Piano to Texts from Japanese Poetry were written till 1920 and published the same year.