Julie Reisserová

Julie Reisserová née Kühnlova was a Czech composer and music publicist.

Biography

Julie Reisserová was born in Prague. She studied piano with Adolf Mikeš and singing with Richard Figar. From 1919 until 1921 she studied composition in Prague with Josef Bohuslav Foerster. She continued her composition studies in Bern with Ernst Hohlfeld and with Albert Roussel and Nadia Boulanger.
In 1921 she married Czech diplomat Jan Reisser and moved with him to Switzerland, Belgrade and Copenhagen while pursuing her career as a composer. Her work was performed in Bern, Paris, Geneva, Copenhagen and in Philadelphia.
Reisserová translated into Czech language Le testament de la tante Caroline, by operetta by composer Albert Roussel and librettist Nino. The operetta premiered on 14 November 1936 in Olomouc and was also staged on 18 April 1937 in Prague.
She died in Prague in 1938, age 49.

Selected works

Notable works include:
; Orchestral music

Suite for Orchestra, 1928–1931
Pastorale Maritimo for Orchestra, 1933
Early Spring, 1936

; Solo piano

Esquisses, 1935
Deux Allegros

; Vocal music

March, 1934
Sous la neige, 1936
Festive Day, 1936, dedicated to Františka Plamínková

Reisserová also wrote In Margin Vitae, a book of her poems written in Czech, German, French and English.

Recordings

Esquisses nos. 1 et 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQHy4LElE4k.