Dora Pejačević (1885 – 1923)
Dora Pejačević, also known as Countess Maria Theodora Paulina Pejačević, was born in Budapest to a Croatian count and Hungarian baroness. She received piano lessons from her mother and had private tutors for studying composition, instrumentation, and violin.
Dora Pejačević began composing at an early age, and with her Piano Concerto (Opus 33) in 1913, and her Symphony (Opus 41) in 1917, she became the first Croatian to compose such music. Her compositions have opus numbers up to 58, including songs (some with orchestral accompaniment), piano works and chamber music.
Her four-movement Piano Quartet in D Minor (Opus 25) dates from 1908. The second movement Adagio is particularly entrancing,