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Veniamin Basner
Veniamin Basner
Soviet and Russian composer
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Nikolai Myaskovsky
Nikolai Myaskovsky
Russian composer
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Dmitri Smirnov
Dmitri Smirnov
Russian composer
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Dmitri Shostakovich
Dmitri Shostakovich
Russian Soviet composer and pianist (1906-1975)
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Marcel Mihalovici
Marcel Mihalovici
French composer
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Robert Kurka
Robert Kurka
American musician and composer
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Grażyna Bacewicz
Grażyna Bacewicz
Polish composer, violinist
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Alun Hoddinott
Alun Hoddinott
Welsh composer
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Tikhon Khrennikov
Tikhon Khrennikov
Russian Soviet composer (1913-2007)
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Alexander Tcherepnin
Alexander Tcherepnin
American composer
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Carl Reinecke
Carl Reinecke
German composer, conductor and pianist
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Ahmed Adnan Saygun
Ahmed Adnan Saygun
Turkish composer
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Cyril Scott
Cyril Scott
English composer, writer, and poet
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Sulkhan Tsintsadze
Sulkhan Tsintsadze
Georgian composer
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Yevgeny Svetlanov
Yevgeny Svetlanov
Russian conductor, composer, and pianist
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Władysław Żeleński
Władysław Żeleński
Polish neoromantic composer, pianist and organist
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Alberto Ginastera
Alberto Ginastera
Argentine composer
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Lera Auerbach
Lera Auerbach
Soviet-Russian-born American classical composer and pianist
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Ernst Toch
Ernst Toch
Austrian composer
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Tolib Shakhidi
Tolib Shakhidi
Soviet composer
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Peter Racine Fricker
Peter Racine Fricker
English composer
Mieczysław Weinberg
Polish Soviet composer

Mieczysław Weinberg

Intro
Polish Soviet composer
Genres
Awards Received
USSR State Prize
People's Artist of the RSFSR
Honored art worker of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
Music
Mieczysław Weinberg during the 1960s

Mieczysław Weinberg (also Moisey or Moishe Vainberg, Moisey Samuilovich Vaynberg; Russian: Моисей Самуилович Вайнберг; Polish: Mojsze [Mieczysław] Wajnberg; 8 December 1919 – 26 February 1996) was a Polish composer, from 1939 resident in USSR. Ever since a revival concert series in the 2010 Bregenz Festival in Austria, his music has been increasingly described as "some of the most individual and compelling music of the twentieth century". Weinberg's output was extensive, encompassing 26 symphonies, 17 string quartets, nearly 30 sonatas for various instruments, 7 operas, and numerous film scores.
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