Isaac Schwarts

Born May 13, 1923· Romny, Poltavskaya guberniya, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Ukraine]

† Died December 27, 2009

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Emerging from a turbulent childhood in the Ukrainian SSR, Isaac Schwartz learned piano after his family relocated to Leningrad in 1930 and gave his debut concert with the Leningrad Philharmonic in 1935. After a period of exile to Kyrgyzstan, where he taught privately and accompanied silent films, he served in a Red Army Choir during World War II and, through his sister-in-law’s connection, entered… Read more

Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources