Dora Pejačević

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Dora Pejačević
Pejačević Castle, her place of residence in Našice

Dora Pejačević (born September 10, 1885 in Budapest , Austria-Hungary , † March 5, 1923 in Munich ) was a composer who grew up in Slavonia and lived in Munich .

Life

Dora Pejačević grew up in Našice (Slavonia). Her father was the Croatian Ban Count Teodor Pejačević , her mother the Hungarian baroness Elisabeta-Lilla Vay de Vaya, a trained pianist and singer. Dora Pejačević received her first music lessons from the organist Károly Noszeda (1863–1944) in Budapest. She continued her studies at the Croatian Music Association in Zagreb , with Václav Huml (violin) and Ćiril Junek (theory), as well as at Dragutin Kaiser’s private school in Zagreb ( instrumentation ). From 1909 she took private lessons in Dresden with Percy Sherwood (1866–1939) and in Munich with Walter Courvoisier (composition) and Henri Petri (1853–1914; violin). However, she was essentially self-taught; she sought her suggestions by exchanging ideas with other artists. Her circle of friends included Annette Kolb , Karl Kraus (whose magazine Die Fackel she subscribed to), Rainer Maria Rilke and his wife Clara Westhoff as well as the pianist Alice Ripper (1889-?). Dora Pejačević's diary shows other readings that aroused her interest in philosophical and social questions: Schopenhauer , Kierkegaard , Dostojewski , Ibsen , Nietzsche , Oscar Wilde , Thomas Mann .

Her residence in Croatia was Pejačević Castle in Našice. She spent her childhood there until the whole family moved to Zagreb in 1903. In 1907 she returned to Našice, but two years later she began her studies in Dresden. In 1911 she then moved to Munich . After the outbreak of the First World War in 1914, she worked as a nurse in Našice throughout the war, taking care of the wounded. At the same time she composed intensely. Some of her best works were created during this time.

At times she also lived in Budapest, Prague, Vienna and finally - from her marriage to Ottomar Lumbe in 1921 until her death in 1923 - in Munich.

Her works, of which she has only published a few, have seen performances both in her home country and in other European countries: the interpreters were the pianists Walther Bachmann, Svetislav Stančić and Alice Ripper; the violinists Joan Manén, Václav Huml and Zlatko Baloković; the singer Ingeborg Danz ; the conductors Oskar Nedbal and Edwin Lindner; the Thomán Trio, the Croatian String Quartet, the Zagreb Philharmonic, the Vienna Tonkünstler Orchestra and the Dresden Philharmonic .

“Dora Pejačević lived mainly in music and for music” (Koraljka Kos): “Often talented, at times also literary active herself. Highly sensitive by nature, she composed “like a seismograph that reacts to the finest stimuli” (Koraljka Kos): in a - as she herself said - “trance of musical obsession”. She was the first woman in Croatia to write orchestral works. Due to her late romantic, harmonious and instrumental refined tonal language, she is considered a representative of the fin de siècle ; occasionally their style has been compared to that of Rachmaninoff .

Compositions (selection)

Vocal compositions

  • Metamorphosis (op.37b) for voice and orchestra, text: Karl Kraus
  • To a fold (op. 46), text: Karl Kraus
  • Love song (op. 39) for voice and orchestra, text: Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Girls' 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)
  • Phantasie concertante (op. 48) for piano and orchestra
  • Overture for large orchestra (op.49)

Piano and chamber music

  • Gondola song on YouTube ( op.4 )
  • Six Fantasy Pieces (op.17)
  • Flower life (op.19)
  • Four piano pieces (op.32a)
  • Piano miniatures
  • Piano Sonata in B flat minor (op.36)
  • Piano Sonata in A flat major (op.57)
  • Sonata in D major for violin and piano (op.26)
  • Slavonic Sonata for Violin and Piano (op.43)
  • Canzonetta for violin and piano (op.8)
  • Minuet for violin and piano (op.18)
  • Romance for violin and piano (op.22)
  • Elegy for violin and piano (op.34)
  • Meditation for violin and piano (op.51)
  • Cello Sonata (op.35)
  • Trio for violin, violoncello and piano in C major (op.29)
  • Piano quartet (op.25)
  • Piano quintet (op. 40)
  • String Quartet (op.58)

literature

  • Zdravko Blažeković: Pejačević, Dora . In: Ludwig Finscher (Ed.): MGG . tape 13 . Bärenreiter Verlag, 2005, Sp. 248-249 .
  • Karl Kraus : Letters to Sidonie Nádherny from Borutin. 1913-1936 . Edited by Friedrich Pfäfflin. Munich (Kösel Verlag) 1974
  • Koraljka Kos: Dora Pejačević. Life and work . Zagreb (Muzički informativni centar Koncertne direkcije Zagreb) 1987.
    • First edition (Croatian): Zagreb (Jugoslavenska akademija znanosti i umjetnosti) 1982
    • Bilingual edition: (Croatian / English): Zabreb (Muzički informativni centar Koncertne direkcije Zagreb) 1998
  • Elena Ostleitner (ed.): The Croatian composer Dora Pejačević (1885–1923) . Kassel ( Furore Verlag ) 2001

Discography

  • Dora Pejacevic (1885–1923): Piano Concerto in G minor, op. 33 (1913), artist: Sigrid Trummer, Nürnberger Symphoniker, label: Re Nova Classics, Vienna, date of publication: 1999
  • Dora Pejacevic (1885–1923): Sonata for violin and piano, D major, op. 26, trio for violin, cello and piano, D major, op. 15/1, quintet for 2 violins, viola, cello and piano , B minor, op. 40, artist: Anika Vavic, Quarteto Amazonia, label: Re Nova Classics, Vienna, date of publication: 2001
  • Dora Pejacevic (1885–1923): Sonata for violoncello and piano, E minor, op. 35, trio for violin, violoncello and piano, C major, op. 29, artists: Tatjana Kubala, Monika Leskovar, Cornelia Gartemann, label : Re Nova Classics, Vienna, publication date: 2004
  • Dora Pejacevic (1885–1923): Songs (Ein Lied, Op. 11; Why, Op. 13; 7 Songs, Op. 23; 2 Songs, Op. 27; 4 Songs, Op. 30; Metamorphosis, Op. 37; Love Song, Op. 39; Gestalten op.42; To a fold op.46; 2 butterfly songs op.52; 3 songs op.53; 2 songs op.55); Artist: Ingeborg Danz, Cord Garben, label CPO, date of publication May 21, 2012
  • Dora Pejacevic (1885–1923): songs (7 songs op.23; 4 songs op.30; girl figures op.42; 3 songs op.53; 2 butterfly songs op.52; 2 songs op.27; 2 songs op.55 ; Metamorphosis, Op. 37; An ein Fold, Op. 46; Liebeslied, Op. 39; A Song, Op. 11; Why, Op. 13); Artist: Sylvie Vucic, Jean Angliviel, Label: Passavant, Release date: August 15, 2012
  • Dora Pejacevic (1885–1923): Piano trio op. 29, artists: Oliver Triendl, Andrej Bielow, Christian Poltera, label CPO, date of publication June 22, 2011
  • Dora Pejacevic (1885–1923): Artist: Volker Banfield, German State Philharmonic Rhineland-Palatinate, Ari Rasilainen, label: CPO, date of publication March 21, 2011
  • Dora Pejacevic (1885–1923): Artist: Nataša Veljković , The Complete Piano Works Label: CPO, 2014

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personal data
SURNAME Pejačević, Dora
BRIEF DESCRIPTION composer living in Munich
DATE OF BIRTH September 10, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Budapest
DATE OF DEATH March 5, 1923
Place of death Munich