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the archival fonds stored “far from the eyes” at the bottom of the clos-
et. Researching the composer’s biography has yielded unexpected results,
thanks especially to genealogy and family records platforms. The receipt
of Radeglia’s legacy is evidenced only by a brief note that in 1959 the ma-
terial was donated by the composer’s daughter, alluding to his Dubrovnik
(i.e. Croatian) origins. 3
The recent interest in Radeglia’s life and output, marked by multicul-
turality and migration, gave the impetus for the systematic research of his
personality, the context of his studying and working and the influences un-
der which he shaped his compositions. The first step was to make a sim-
ple table with most important information on each music item. Some of
them have been preserved as single compositions, and some were united
in a composite volume containing various pieces bound together. It seems
that the composer himself wanted to keep his output in a well-organised
way and he thus sometimes added his own remarks to the scores, such as
dates and places where he composed them, or numbers that might point to
the opus number, or just the chronology of their creation. At the Depart-
ment for History of Croatian Music, there are about a hundred of Radeg-
lia’s works stored in five archive boxes, and include autographs, transcrip-
tions, printed materials published mainly in Italy, Germany, and the USA,
among which there are unfinished works, arrangements and reworkings of
excerpts from his own (operatic) works, as well as unperformed composi-
tions. This paper presents information thus far collected. A thematic cata-
logue, which is in preparation, will undoubtedly supply some new data on
that unusual personality.
A piano composition, published in St Louis in 1913, attracted our at-
tention mostly because of the information which was published as the pref-
ace, introduction and commentary on the composition itself. It will be pre-
sented here after some basic information on the composer and his oeuvre.

3 “For its archive, the Department received as a gift two books of handwritten com-
positions by Ivan Zajc, and from the daughter of the composer Viktor Radelja, born
in Dubrovnik, who lived and died in Istanbul, a large number of manuscripts and
compositions by that composer.” “Izvještaj o radu Jugoslavenske akademije znanosti i
umjetnosti za 1958. godinu, VIII. Odjel za muzičku umjetnost,” Ljetopis JAZU za go-
dinu 1959, vol. 66 (1962): 112.

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