Dora Pejačević

Dora Pejačević ( born September 10, 1885 in Budapest, † March 5, 1923 in Munich) was a Croatian composer and member of the noble family Pejačević.

Life

Dora Pejačević grew up in Našice ( Slavonia ). Her father was the Croatian Ban Count Teodor Pejačević, her mother Hungarian Baroness Elisabeta - Lilla Vay de Vaya, a trained pianist and singer. First music study was Dora Pejačević the organist Noszeda Károly (1863-1944) in Budapest. In Croatian music club in Zagreb, she continued her education, and she took private lessons in Dresden at Percy Sherwood (1866-1939) as well as in Munich with Walter Courvoisier (composition) and Henri Petri ( 1853-1914; violin). But mainly she was self-taught; they sought their suggestions in the exchange of ideas with other artists. Her acquaintances included Annette Kolb, Karl Kraus (whose magazine The torch they subscribed to ), Rainer Maria Rilke and his wife Clara Westhoff and pianist Alice Ripper ( 1889 - ). The Diary of Dora Pejačević is further readings that sparked her interest in philosophical and social questions: Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, Dostoevsky, Ibsen, Nietzsche, Oscar Wilde, Thomas Mann.

Your place of residence in Croatia was Castle Pejačević in Našice. At times, they also lived in Budapest, Prague, Vienna and - from her marriage to Ottomar Lumbe 1921 until her death in 1923 - in Munich. Her works, which they published only a few, experienced performances both in their home as well as in other European countries: Performers include pianists Walter Bachmann, Svetislav Stančić and Alice Ripper; the violinist Joan Manén, Václav Huml and Zlatko Baloković; the singer Ingeborg Danz; the conductor Oskar Nedbal and Edwin Lindner; Thomán the trio, the Croatian String Quartet, the Zagreb Philharmonic, the Vienna Composers Orchestra and the Dresden Philharmonic.

" In many cases, gifted, at times even self literarily active, Dora Pejačević lived mainly in the music and for the music " ( Koraljka Kos). By nature, highly sensitive, they composed " a seismograph similar to that reacts to the slightest suggestions " ( Koraljka Kos): a - as she said herself - "Trance of musical obsession ." She was the first woman in Croatia, who wrote orchestral works. Because of their late-romantic, harmonious and refined sound instrumentatorisch language it is considered representative of the fin de siècle; sometimes her style has been compared to that of Rachmaninov.

Compositions (selection )

Vocal compositions

• Transformation (op. 37b) for voice and orchestra
• Love Song (Op. 39) for voice and orchestra
• Girlish figures (Op. 42), song cycle for voice and piano, text: Rainer Maria Rilke
• Two Butterfly Songs (Op. 52) for voice and orchestra
• Three Songs (Op. 53) Texts: Friedrich Nietzsche

Orchestral works

• Symphony (Op. 41)
• Piano Concerto in G minor (Op. 33)
• Imagination concertante (Op. 48 ) for piano and orchestra
• Overture for large orchestra (op. 49)

Piano and Chamber Music

• Piano miniatures
• Trio for Violin, Cello and Piano in C major (Op. 29)
• Cello Sonata (Op. 35)
• Piano Quintet (Op. 40)
• Piano Sonata in A flat major (Op. 57)
• String Quartet (Op. 58)