"Books I have read" - Dora Pejačević kao čitateljica
“Books I have read”: Dora Pejačević as an individual reader

Summary/Abstract: The composer Dora Pejačević (1885-1923) was born in Budapest, but she grew up in a family palace in Našice where she composed most of her compositions. The most important piece of her compositions is her Symphony in F Sharp Minor for Full Orchestra Op. 41. (1916/7; 1920). The first performance of her Symphony was in Dresden in February 1920, conducted by Edwin Lindner. Dora Pejačević had a great passion for books and reading, so she recorded all the books she was reading in her reading diary - My Book Record. My Book Record was a printed notebook which contains three parts: Books I have read, Books I wish to read and Books worth reading. In this article the author analyses this reading diary, which Dora Pejačević was writing between 1902. and 1921. From perspective of the history of reading the author analyses: what, how much, when, where and how the composer was reading. The author puts the books and the writers from the reading diary in several categories: books according to the language and themes, writers according to their sex and nationality. In the supplement to the article the author gives a transcription of the biggest part of the composer’s reading diary which was named Books I have read.

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