Lyubov Streicher

Lyubov Lvovna Streicher (3 March 1888 - 31 March 1958)[1] was a Russian composer,[2] teacher, and violinist, as well as a founding member of the Society for Jewish Folk Music.[3]

Streicher was born in Vladikavkaz.[4] She graduated from the St. Petersburg Conservatory,[5] where she studied with Leopold Auer,[6] Mikhail Gnessin,[7] Anatoly Lyadov, and Maximilian Steinberg.[8] In 1908,[9] she joined Gnessin and Lazare Saminsky as founding members of the Society for Jewish Folk Music in St. Petersburg. The Society was part of the Jewish art music movement. It promoted Jewish folk music through research, composition, performance, and publishing. Branches of the Society were established in several Russian cities, and it remained active through 1919.[10]

Compositions

At least one of Streicher’s compositions, “A Simple Soviet Man,” was recorded commercially by pianist Maria Yudina in 1937.[11] Streicher’s compositions included:

Ballet

Noch Fialki[8]

Chamber

Armenian String Quartet[8]

Improvisation (cello and piano)[8]

Sonata (cello and piano)[8]

String Quartet[8]

Suite (string quartet)[8]

Suite on Folk Themes of the Peoples of the Soviet Union (string quartet)[8]

Operetta

Chasi (for children; text by Elizaveta Polonskaya)[8]

Orchestra

Jewish Poem[8]

Zhenshchina Vostoka (chorus and orchestra; text by Elizaveta Polonskaya)[8]

Piano

Six Pieces[8]

Sonata[8]

Twelve Children’s Pieces on Folk Themes of the USSR[8]

Vocal

“A Simple Soviet Man” (with Sergey Germanov; lyrics by Vasily Lebedev-Kumach )[11]

“Klyatva” (text by Elizaveta Polonskaya)[8]

Romances (text by Fyodor Tyuchev and Paul Verlaine)[8]

Seven Poems from Eugene Onegin (text by Alexander Pushkin)[8]

“Shir Hashirim”[12]

“Song of Songs”[13]

Ten Jewish Work Songs[8]

“Ya Lesom Shia”[8]

References

  1. ^ "Dolmetsch Online - Composers Biography S". www.dolmetsch.com. Retrieved 2021-10-28.
  2. ^ Hixon, Donald L.; Hennessee, Don A. (1993). Women in Music: An Encyclopedic Biobibliography. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-2769-1.
  3. ^ "Sweet Is Thy Voice: The Song of Songs in Concert". YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. Retrieved 2021-10-28.
  4. ^ Stewart-Green, Miriam (1980). Women Composers: A Checklist of Works for the Solo Voice. G.K. Hall. ISBN 978-0-8161-8498-9.
  5. ^ McVicker, Mary F. (2016-08-09). Women Opera Composers: Biographies from the 1500s to the 21st Century. McFarland. ISBN 978-0-7864-9513-9.
  6. ^ Violin Music by Women Composers: A Bio-bibliographical Guide. Greenwood Press. 1989. ISBN 978-0-313-26652-2.
  7. ^ Be?zer, Mikhail (1989). The Jews of St. Petersburg: Excursions Through a Noble Past. Jewish Publication Society. ISBN 978-0-8276-0321-9.
  8. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s Cohen, Aaron I. (1987). International Encyclopedia of Women Composers. Books & Music USA. ISBN 978-0-9617485-1-7.
  9. ^ "Saminsky, Lazare". Milken Archive of Jewish Music. Retrieved 2021-10-28.
  10. ^ "YIVO | Society for Jewish Folk Music". yivoencyclopedia.org. Retrieved 2021-10-28.
  11. ^ a b "A Simple Soviet Man (Советский простой человек), song". Мир русской грамзаписи. The World of Russian Records. Retrieved 2021-10-28.
  12. ^ Shir Hashirim by Lyubov Streicher, retrieved 2021-10-28
  13. ^ Weisser, Albert (1954). The Modern Renaissance of Jewish Music, Events and Figures, Eastern Europe and America. Bloch Publishing Company.