Mieczysław Weinberg
Moisei Weinberg
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Emerging from a Warsaw family entrenched in Yiddish theatre, he began formal music lessons at twelve and later refined his piano technique at the Warsaw Conservatory before fleeing the Nazi invasion and seeking refuge in the Soviet Union, where Dmitri Shostakovich and the Committee on the Arts helped him establish a career. The 1960s marked his most prolific period, during which his film music gai…
Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources