Lyubov_Streicher
Lyubov Streicher
Russian composer
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]