On this day in 1923 Dora Countess Pejačević, composer & violinist, died

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Famous Croatian composer and violinist Mária Theodóra Paulina Sófia countess Pejácsevich de Virovitica was born on September 10, 1885 in Budapest, Hungary, where her father Dr. of Law Theodor count Pejacsevich often went by political affairs.

Dora began to compose when she was 12. She studied music privately in Agram (Zagreb), Dresden and München and also received lessons in instrumentation (from Dragutin Kaiser and Walter Courvoisier), and composition (from Percy Sherwood). She was largely self-taught, however.

She left behind a considerable catalogue of 58 opuses (106 compositions), in late-Romantic, Art Nouveau (early Hollywoodian) and early 20th ct. Modernist style, ranging from songs, piano works, chamber music, and several compositions for large orchestra.

She married officer Ottomar von Lumbe (b. 1892 in Vienna, Austria) in 1921. Dora died on March 5, 1923 in Munich, Bavaria, Germany, from complications following a difficult childbirth (of her son Theo), and is buried near the family cemetery in Našice, Osijek-Baranja, Croatia.

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Thank you, wonderful pictures!

Best, David

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In the summer of 2013, in a little birch grove on the Pejačević manor, pianist Yoko Nishii placing flowers on Dora's grave 



..and a wonderful view of town Našice from there