Yuliya Veysberg
Compositions for: Contrabassoon
WikipediaYuliya 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.
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. She died in World War II during the Siege of Leningrad conducted by Nazi German troops.
Veysberg's compositions included vocal works, a symphony, a scherzo, and a fantasia. Selected works include:
She also produced several operas, such as:
