Julie Reisserová

Julie Reisserová née Kühnlova (9 October 1888 – 25 February 1938) was a Czech composer and music publicist.

Biography Julie Reisserová was born in Prague. She studied piano with Adolf Mikeš and singing with Richard Figar. From 1919 until 1921 she studied composition in Prague with Josef Bohuslav Foerster. She continued her composition studies in Bern with Ernst Hohlfeld and with Albert Roussel (1924–1929) and Nadia Boulanger.

Reisserová translated into Czech language Le testament de la tante Caroline (Aunt Caroline's Last Will), by operetta by composer Albert Roussel and librettist Nino (Michel Veber). The operetta premiered on 14 November 1936 in Olomouc and was also staged on 18 April 1937 in Prague.

She died in Prague in 1938, age 49.

Selected works Notable works include:

Orchestral music Suite for Orchestra , 1928–1931 Pastorale Maritimo for Orchestra , 1933 Early Spring , 1936

Solo piano Esquisses, 1935 Deux Allegros

Vocal music March (; orchestral songs), 1934 Sous la neige (, ; song cycle for voice and piano), 1936 Festive Day (; for women's choir), 1936, dedicated to Františka Plamínková

Reisserová also wrote In Margin Vitae, a book of her poems written in Czech, German, French and English (lost).

Recordings Esquisses nos. 1 et 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQHy4LElE4k (Yuliya Minina, piano).