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public.”) Radeglia composed some 50 piano pieces that date from the late
1870s until the end of World War I. Although he lived until 1941, the pre-
served compositions do not show that he continued his composition work
after 1918 (when the opera Schaaban was created). The piano compositions
are mostly short piano miniatures of a salon character.
The composition Serenade aux etoiles is in ternary form and contains
the following parts:

Introduction m. 1–4
A a m. 5–24 (8+8+4) B major
b m. 25–39 (8+7)
a‘ m. 40–58 (8+8+3)
B c m. 59–74 (8+8) B minor
d m. 75–81 (7)
c‘ + d and motif ela- m. 82–104 (12+10)
boration
Transition m. 104–111 (8)
A b m. 112–127 (8+8) B major
a‘‘ m. 128–135 (8)
a + b and motif ela- m. 136–164 (6+10+4+4+5)
boration
Coda m. 165–174 (10)

Radeglia wrote the following poetic idea:

A beautiful summer night. The elves give a serenade to the stars. Their
song is interrupted by the dance of the sylphs who spring around the
singing fairies. The dance being finished, the song is again taken up,
still more passionately, transforming itself into a hymn to the orbs of
night. Finally, the singers and dancers disperse and silence again reigns
in the night. 53
The composer is therefore influenced by the mythological, dream
world of fairies and elves, he uses the mysticism of the night landscape and
the relationship between dreams and reality, combining the dreamy char-
acter of the serenade and the dynamic character of the dance, a very fre-
quent motif of the romantic tradition. It is the basis for an interpretation
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52 In the Radeglia legacy in the Department for History of Croatian Music, only the So-
nata for Piano and Cello (1899) and the Oriental Rhapsody (1898) have been preser-
ved among the above compositions.
53 Victor Radeglia, Serenade aux etoiles.
54 Admirers of Croatian music will certainly associate such an idea (albeit somewhat
darker) with Blagoje Bersa’s later work Sablasti.

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