Anna Saulowna Lyuboshits

Anna Saulowna Lyuboshits (in Russian, Анна Сауловна Любошиц) (13 July 1887 in Odessa – 20 February 1975 in Moscow) was a classical cellist who toured extensively and was also a soloist for the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra.

Anna Saulowna Lyuboshits
Born13 July 1887
Odessa, Ukraine
Died20 February 1975
Moscow, Russia
Burial placeNovodevichy Cemetery, Moscow
NationalityRussian
Alma materOdessa Music School
OccupationCellist
Spouse(s)Nikolai Adolfowitsch Schereschewski
ChildrenNadeschda Nikolaevna Schereschewskaja (1915-1998)

Biography

Anna came from a family of violinists whose last name can also be translated as Ljuboshitz, Luboshutz or Lyuboshiz.[1] As a child she learned to play the cello from her father and completed the cello class at the Odessa Music School, graduating in 1903.[2] She then became the first cellist to study the instrument with Alfred von Glen (or Glehn)[3] and piano with D.N. Weiss at the Moscow Conservatory. In 1909 she graduated from the conservatory[4] as the first female cellist to do so. For this she received a gold medal and had her name inscribed on a marble plaque.[2][4]

Performances

For several years, Lyuboshits gave concerts in Russia and abroad, performing with important musicians, such as Feodor Chaliapin and Alexander Goldenweiser, and she played under Arthur Nikisch and Emil Cooper as well.  In 1910–1916 she took part in philanthropy concerts organized by the opera singer L.V. Sobinov (1872–1934) to benefit needy students.[2] She gave numerous concerts and solo performances for more than a decade, starting in 1920 as she toured the Soviet Union. From 1924–1929 she also performed for radio programs.[2]

Her siblings Lea Lyuboshits (1885–1965, violin) and Peter Lyuboshits (1891–1971, piano), both notable musicians, emigrated to the United States after the Russian October Revolution in 1917 and Anna played with them in the "Luboschits Trio" from time to time.[1][2]

From 1931 to 1939, she was a soloist with the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra and was awarded Merited Artist of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic in 1933.[4][5]

The wall of Novodevichy Cemetery is used as a columbarium.

Personal life

Lyuboshits was married to the internist Nikolai Adolfowitsch Schereschewski and their daughter Nadeschda Nikolaevna Schereschewskaja (1915–1998) became a philologist. Anna died in 1975 and was interred in the columbarium of Moscow's Novodevichy Cemetery (New Territory, Columbarium, section 118) where her husband and daughter are also interred.[5]

References

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