Dora Pejačević
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Dora Pejačević (born September 10, 1885, Budapest – died March 5, 1923, Munich) was the first Croatian female composer.
Dora Pejačević was a daughter of an excellent Croatian pianist and singer Lilla Pejačević, who gave her her first music lessons. Dora began to compose when she was only 12. She studied music in Zagreb, Dresden and Munich. She married in 1921. Although she led a lonely life, she met many eminent musicians and writers, and was friends with Austrian journalist and writer Karl Kraus and Czech aristocrat and culture patron Sidonie Nádherná.
She left behind a rich opus of 58 pieces in a late romantic style, mostly for piano or chamber orchestra. Most of it has not been published or recorded yet.
Pejačević is buried at the local cemetery in Našice (Croatia).
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