Pejačević : Nocturne for Orchestra (1918. Orchestrated nocturne for piano)

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Pejacevic : Nocturne For Orchestra

Pejačević composed two nocturnes for piano, Zwei Nocturnos op.50 No.1 & No.2, and wrote verses as a small poetic programme (describing the atmosphere in which both pieces were conceived).

Nocturne Op.50 No.1 was composed in Janowitz, Bohemia (near border with Germany), on 20-21st July 1918, and carries a dedication to her friend, pianist Alice Ripper (1889-1961).

Dunkel ruht des Teiches Tiefe
im Mond erzittert die Fläche leis,
die Tannen rauschen, die Weide neigt sich –
herbstlich berührt, schweigt still das Herz


Did she orchestrate this, I wonder? There were other Croatian composers -at the time, and later- of masterful instrumentating abilities that secretly admired her work, almost like personality cult..

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I assume that it circulated in manuscript, since this piano work only seems to have been published around the 1970s if not even more recently? If one could track manuscript copies somehow (is it listed in RISM - not RISM-online, but RISM generally- somewhere?, that might help)