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Dora Pejacevics (September 10, 1885 - March 5, 1923) was a Croatian composer, a member o fPejacevics noble family.
Dora Pejacevics (in old documents also Pejacsevich) was born in Budapest, a daughter of Croatian ban Teodor Pejacevics and Hungarian Countess Lilla Vay de Vaya, herself a fine pianist. Her mother gave her first piano lessons. Paternally, she descended from the old Croatian noble Pejacevics family, one of the most distinguished noble families in Slavonia. Dora began to compose when she was 12. She studied music privately in Zagreb, Dresden and Munich and also received lessons in instrumentation (from Dragutin Kaiser and Walter Courvoisier), and composition (from Percy Sherwood). She was largely self-taught, however. She married Ottomar von Lumbe in 1921. Although Pejacevics led a lonely life, she met many prominent musicians and writers, and befriended Austrian journalist and writer Karl Kraus. Dora died in Munich in 1923, a result of complications following a difficult childbirth (of her son Theo).
Dora Pejacevics should be considered a major Croatian composer. She left behind a strong catalogue of 58 compositions, mostly in late-Romantic style, ranging from songs, piano works, chamber music, and several compositions for large orchestra, arguably her best. Her Symphony in F-sharp Minor is considered by scholars the first modern symphony in Croatian Music. Most of her music has yet to be published and released on compact disc, although concerted efforts have been made recently to rectify this situation. For example, the Croatian Music Information Centre has published some of her scores, including three of her orchestral works (Piano Concerto, Symphony, and Phantasie Concertante). In 2008, the Centre also published a bilingual monograph (in English and Croatian), written by thePejacevics scholar Koraljka Kos, accompanied by a first all-Pejacevics CD of piano and chamber music.
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