Mieczysław Weinberg
Composer
1919 – 1996
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Who was Mieczysław Weinberg?
Mieczysław Weinberg was a Soviet composer of Polish-Jewish origin. From 1939 he lived in the Soviet Union and Russia and lost most of his family in the Holocaust.
He left a large body of work that included twenty-two symphonies and seventeen string quartets; according to one reviewer he ranked as "the third great Soviet composer, along with Prokofiev and Shostakovich".
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- Born
- Dec 8, 1919
Warsaw - Also known as
- Weinberg, Mieczysław
- Моисей Вайнберг
- Moisei Vainberg
- Moisey Vainberg
- Mieczysław Wajnberg
- Moisey Vaynberg
- Moisey Samuilovich Vaynberg
- Moisey Weinberg
- Moisei Weinberg
- Moishe Vainberg
- Parents
- Spouses
- Natalia Vovsi
(1943 - ) - Olga Rakhalskaya
(1970 - )
- Natalia Vovsi
- Children
- Ethnicity
- Jewish people
- Poles
- Nationality
- Soviet Union
- Russia
- Profession
- Education
- Fryderyk Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw
- Died
- Feb 26, 1996
Moscow
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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