Julie Reisserová
Julie Reisserovánée Kühnlova (9 October 1888 – 25 February 1938) was a Czech composer and music publicist.
Biography[edit]
Julie Reisserová was born inPrague.She studied piano with Adolf Mikeš and singing with Richard Figar. From 1919 until 1921 she studied composition in Prague withJosef Bohuslav Foerster.She continued her composition studies in Bern with Ernst Hohlfeld and withAlbert Roussel(1924–1929) andNadia Boulanger.[1]
In 1921 she married Czech diplomat Jan Reisser (born 1891) and moved with him to Switzerland (1921–1929), Belgrade (1930–1933) and Copenhagen (1933–1936) while pursuing her career as a composer. Her work was performed in Bern, Paris, Geneva, Copenhagen and in Philadelphia.[2]
Reisserová translated into Czech languageLe testament de la tante Caroline(Aunt Caroline's Last Will), by operetta by composerAlbert RousselandlibrettistNino (Michel Veber). The operetta premiered on 14 November 1936 inOlomoucand was also staged on 18 April 1937 in Prague.[3][4]
She died in Prague in 1938, age 49.
Selected works[edit]
Notable works include:[1]
- Orchestral music
- Suite for Orchestra(Czech:Suita pro orchestr), 1928–1931
- Pastorale Maritime for Orchestra(Czech:Pastorale Maritimo pro orchestr), 1933
- Early Spring(Czech:Předjaří), 1936
- Solo piano
- Esquisses,1935
- Deux Allegros
- Vocal music
- March(Czech:Březen;orchestral songs), 1934
- Sous la neige(Czech:Pod sněhem,lit. '"Beneath the Snow"';song cycle for voice and piano), 1936
- Festive Day(Czech:Slavnostní den;for women's choir), 1936, dedicated toFrantiška Plamínková
In 1934 Reisserová also publishedIn Margin Vitae,a book of her poems written in Czech, German, French and English.
References[edit]
- ^abKarla Hartl."Women in Czech music – Julie Reisserová".Kapralova Society.Retrieved26 June2024.,republished in:Karla Hartl (2010)."Komponistinnen in Tschechien"(PDF).In Christel Nies (ed.).Entdeckt und uraufgeführt – Komponistinnen und ihr Werk IV(in German).Kassel University Press.pp. 232–247.ISBN978-3-89958-942-9.
- ^Grove, Sir George;Blom, Eric(1954).Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians.Vol. 7. Macmillan.ISBN9780333191743.
- ^"Prague opera premieres"(PDF).Opera(in English and Czech).76(3).Prague State Opera:35. Spring 2008.Retrieved27 October2010.[dead link]
- ^Závada, Vilém (1931-10-22)."Skladatelka Julie Reisserová o sobě"[Composer Julie Reisserová about herself].Rozpravy Aventina(in Czech). Vol. 7, no. 6. pp. 44–45.Retrieved26 June2024.
Further reading[edit]
- Jean-Paul C. Montagnier,"Autour de laPastorale maritimode Julie Reisserová (1888–1938) ",Revue belge de musicologie,74 (2020), pp. 143–166.
- Jean-Paul C. Montagnier, "Julie Reisserová (1888–1938): A Czech Woman Composer of Importance", inIt’s a Man’s World? Künstlerinnen in Europas Musik-Metropolen des frühen 20. Jahrhunderts.Edited by Kaï Hinrich Müller and Sabine Meine. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann GmbH, 2023, pp. 157–167.
- Julie Reisserová,Oeuvres pour orchestre. Orchestral Works,edited by Jean-Paul C. Montagnier. Berlin: Ries & Erler, 2022.
- Julie Reisserová,Březen. Version pour orchestre / Orchestral Version,edited by Jean-Paul C. Montagnier. Berlin: Ries & Erler, 2023.
- Julie Reisserová,Musique de chambre / Chamber Music,edited by Jean-Paul C. Montagnier. Berlin: Ries & Erler, 2023.
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