Branislav Hronec (22 December 1940 – 25 October 2022) was a Slovak composer, pianist and conductor.

Born in Hronsek, the son of an evangelical minister, Hronec started playing organ at 13 years old.

[1][2] He later studied piano and conducting at the Bratislava Conservatory [sk] and conducting and composition at the Academy of Performing Arts under Alexander Moyzes.

[1][2] After experiences with the ensembles West Coast Combo and Bratislava Jazz Studio, in 1963 he founded the Braň Hronec Group, which later was renamed Braň Hronec Orchestra; with this ensemble he toured extensively nationally and abroad, in Europe, Central Asia and Cuba.

[1][2] The orchestra disbanded in 1981, with Hronec focusing on composition for television and theatre, and becoming in the second half of the 1980s music director at Slovak Radio and conductor of the Dance Orchestra of the Czechoslovak Television.