Lyubov Streicher

{{short description|Russian composer}}

Lyubov Lvovna Streicher (3 March 1888 - 31 March 1958){{Cite web|title=Dolmetsch Online - Composers Biography S|url=https://www.dolmetsch.com/cdefss.htm|access-date=2021-10-28|website=www.dolmetsch.com}} was a Russian composer,{{Cite book|last1=Hixon|first1=Donald L.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AiMKAQAAMAAJ&q=lyubov+streicher|title=Women in Music: An Encyclopedic Biobibliography|last2=Hennessee|first2=Don A.|date=1993|publisher=Scarecrow Press|isbn=978-0-8108-2769-1|language=en}} teacher, and violinist, as well as a founding member of the Society for Jewish Folk Music.{{Cite web|title=Sweet Is Thy Voice: The Song of Songs in Concert|url=https://yivo.org/Song-of-Songs|access-date=2021-10-28|website=YIVO Institute for Jewish Research|language=en}}

Streicher was born in Vladikavkaz.{{Cite book|last=Stewart-Green|first=Miriam|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fyEKAQAAMAAJ&q=lyubow+lvovna+streicher|title=Women Composers: A Checklist of Works for the Solo Voice|date=1980|publisher=G.K. Hall|isbn=978-0-8161-8498-9|language=en}} She graduated from the St. Petersburg Conservatory,{{Cite book|last=McVicker|first=Mary F.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_ZnPDAAAQBAJ&dq=Lyubov+Streicher&pg=PA273|title=Women Opera Composers: Biographies from the 1500s to the 21st Century|date=2016-08-09|publisher=McFarland|isbn=978-0-7864-9513-9|language=en}} where she studied with Leopold Auer,{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6JYJAQAAMAAJ&q=Lyubov+Streicher|title=Violin Music by Women Composers: A Bio-bibliographical Guide|date=1989|publisher=Greenwood Press|isbn=978-0-313-26652-2|language=en}} Mikhail Gnessin,{{Cite book|last=Be?zer|first=Mikhail|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MK0IAD6p2DoC&dq=Lyubov+Streicher&pg=PA122|title=The Jews of St. Petersburg: Excursions Through a Noble Past|date=1989|publisher=Jewish Publication Society|isbn=978-0-8276-0321-9|language=en}} Anatoly Lyadov, and Maximilian Steinberg.{{Cite book|last=Cohen|first=Aaron I.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WeJB2s2SqcUC&q=lyubov+streicher|title=International Encyclopedia of Women Composers|date=1987|publisher=Books & Music USA|isbn=978-0-9617485-1-7|language=en}} In 1908,{{Cite web|title=Saminsky, Lazare|url=http://www.milkenarchive.org/artists/view/lazare-saminsky/|access-date=2021-10-28|website=Milken Archive of Jewish Music|language=en-US}} 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.{{Cite web|title=YIVO {{!}} Society for Jewish Folk Music|url=https://yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Society_for_Jewish_Folk_Music|access-date=2021-10-28|website=yivoencyclopedia.org}}