Melita Lorković

Her brother, Mladen Pozajić was also a pianist, composer, music pedagogue, conductor (of choir and orchestra) and publicist.

Melita was educated as a pianist at the Zagreb Music Academy, mainly by Svetislav Stančić, and later in courses with Alfred Cortot, Lazare Lévy, Yvonne Lefebure, Wanda Landowska in Paris and Eduard Steuermann in Salzburg.

Radoslav was killed by the communists in 1945 in Zagreb, and Melita was forced to stop her concert activity from 1943-48 by the Ustaša as well as the SFRJ regime, but she later launched a second career performing the great Piano concerti across Europe, including all five by Beethoven, Chopin, Schumann, both Brahms, Liszt, Rachmanjinow, and modern Croatian composers.

Until the end of her life she extended her wide repertory ranging from early Barock to Berg and Rolf Liebermann.

After her concert tours in Scandinavia, Germany, Austria, Italy, as well as out of Europe, she was compared with the greatest pianists of that time, including Emil von Sauer, Myra Hess, Teresa Carreño and Dinu Lipatti.