Yuliya Veysberg
Yuliya Lazarevna Veysberg (Yuliya Rimskaya-Korsakova) (Julia Weissberg) (b. 6 January 1880 [O.S. 25 December 1879], d. March 1, 1942) was a Russian music critic and composer.
Life and career
Yuliya Veysberg was born in Orenburg, Russia. She studied at the Women's University, and in 1912 graduated from St. Petersburg Conservatory where she studied composition under Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. From 1912 to 1914 she continued her studies in Berlin with Engelbert Humperdinck and Max Reger.
She married Andrey Rimsky-Korsakov, musicologist and son of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, and from 1915 to 1917 served on the editorial board of the first Russian music magazine, Muzïkal'nïy sovremennik, which he founded.[1][2] She died in World War II during the Siege of Leningrad conducted by Nazi German troops.[3]
Works
Veysberg's compositions included vocal works, a symphony, a scherzo, and a fantasia. Selected works include:
- At Night (symphonic poem for orchestra)
- Chinese songs[4]
- Chanson d'automne: Les sanglots longs, op. 2 (Zwei Lieder) no. 1 (Text: Paul Verlaine)
- Le ciel est, par-dessus le toit, op. 2 (Zwei Lieder) no. 1 (Text: Paul Verlaine)
References
- ↑ Taruskin, Richard (1996). Stravinsky and the Russian traditions:a biography of the works ..., Volume 1 (Digitized online by GoogleBooks). ISBN 0-520-07099-2. Retrieved 12 October 2010.
- ↑ Sadie, Julie Anne; Samuel, Rhian (1994). The Norton/Grove dictionary of women composers (Digitized online by GoogleBooks). Retrieved 4 October 2010.
- ↑ Weissberg (Veysberg), Julia Lazarevna, Encyclopaedia Judaica, retrieved 29 May 2014
- ↑ Campbell, Stuart (2003). Russians on Russian music, 1880-1917: an anthology (Digitized online by GoogleBooks). Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-59097-3. Retrieved 12 October 2010.