Lyubov Streicher
Lyubov Lvovna Streicher was a Russian composer, teacher and violinist. She was a founding member of the Society for Jewish Folk Music.
Streicher was born in Vladikavkaz. She graduated from the St. Petersburg Conservatory, where she studied with Leopold Auer, Mikhail Gnessin, Anatoly Lyadov, and Maximilian Steinberg. In 1908, 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.
Compositions
At least one of Streicher's compositions, "A Simple Soviet Man," was recorded commercially by pianist Maria Yudina in 1937. Streicher’s compositions included:Ballet
Noch FialkiChamber
Armenian String QuartetImprovisation
Sonata
String Quartet
Suite
''Suite on Folk Themes of the Peoples of the Soviet Union''
Operetta
ChasiOrchestra
Jewish PoemZhenshchina Vostoka
Piano
Six PiecesSonata
''Twelve Children’s Pieces on Folk Themes of the USSR''
Vocal
"A Simple Soviet Man""Klyatva"
Romances
Seven Poems from Eugene Onegin
"Shir Hashirim"
"Song of Songs"
Ten Jewish Work Songs
"Ya Lesom Shia"