Famous People with Name Vinzenz

Vinzenz Dittrich            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Vinzenz Dittrich: was an Austrian football (soccer) player in defender role and manager.He coached Hakoah Wien, Olympique de Marseille, DSV Saaz and FC Nordstern Basel.

Vinzenz Lachner            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Vinzenz Lachner: was a significant German composer and conductor. He was the youngest brother of Franz Lachner, also a composer and conductor and well known as a close friend of Franz Schubert. As a composer Lachner was essentially self-taught. He was first educated by his father Anton Lachner, the municipal organist, and after Anton's death was schooled in Augsburg, where he subsequently scratched out a living teaching music until his brother Franz arranged for him to become conductor and house musician for Earl Mycielski of Coscevitz in the Grand Duchy of Poznan. In 1831 he moved to Vienna to continue his musical training, becoming assistant conductor at the Court Opera and organist at a Protestant church (though he himself was Catholic).