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Beautiful Music NOW - Dora Pejačević

Dora Pejačević
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Dora Pejačević

Croatian composer Dora Pejačević (1885-1923) began her musical career playing piano and violin, sometimes even performing her own compositions. Today's Beautiful Music is one of Dora Pejačević's 58 known compositions -- the Symphony in f# Op. 41, composed in 1918 by the largely self-taught musician.

Suzanne Bona is the host and executive producer of Sunday Baroque, a nationally syndicated weekly radio show of Baroque and early music which she originated on WSHU in 1987.