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Moisey Weinberg - biography, date of birth, place of birth, filmography, clips, Composer.
January 12, 1919, Warsaw, Polish Republic - February 26, 1996, Moscow, Russia - Soviet and Russian composer, pianist.
From the age of ten he played the piano in the accompanying orchestra, and later was the musical director of several productions. Together with his father he took part in the musical accompaniment of the film "Fredek uszczesliwia swiat" (1936). In 1939 he graduated from the Warsaw Conservatory as a pianist, class of Jozef Turczynski.
With the outbreak of war in September 1939, he fled to the USSR; his family, which remained in Warsaw (parents and younger sister Esther), was deported to the Lodz ghetto and later perished in the Trawniki concentration camp. Moisei Weinberg originally settled in Minsk and studied for some time at the Minsk Conservatory in the composition class of Vasily Zolotarev. In 1941 he was evacuated to Tashkent, where he met Dmitry Shostakovich - this acquaintance had a great influence on Weinberg. In 1943 he returned to Moscow together with Shostakovich.
Arrested in February 1953 in connection with the Doctors' Cause, Dmitry Shostakovich and Nikolai Peiko wrote a petition to release Weinberg. Released after the death of I. V. Stalin, subsequently rehabilitated.
Weinberg performed and recorded his compositions as an ensemble, including the Piano Quintet (in an ensemble with the Borodin Quartet) .
Since 1954 he has been actively writing music for films. One of the first Soviet composers began to use the timbres of electric musical instruments as in the films "The Last Inch" (1958) and "The Barrier of Unknown" (1961), in the recording of soundtracks to which the "Quintet of Electromagnetic Instruments" IM Varovich. Weinberg's songs to the film "The Cranes Are Flying" (1957) and the cartoon "Winnie the Pooh" (1969) gained popularity.
Weinberg's music was performed and recorded by conductors Yuri Aranovich, Rudolf Barshai, Anthony Vit, Kirill Kondrashin, Teodor Currentzis, Vladimir Fedoseev, Gabriel Khmura, Mark Ermler. Outstanding instrumental musicians Leonid Kogan, David Oistrakh, Mstislav Rostropovich, Daniil Shafran addressed to the composer's works.
