Mieczysław Weinberg was a Polish, Soviet, and Russian composer and pianist. Born in Warsaw to parents who worked in the Yiddish theatre in Poland, his early years were surrounded by music. At the age of 12, he began formal music lessons. Later, he studied piano at the Warsaw Conservatory.
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Weinberg's birth certificate with enrollment application into the Warsaw Conservatory
Façade of the Café Adria (c. late 1930s), where Weinberg worked before the war.
The Minsk Conservatory in 2010
Weinberg was jailed at the Lubyanka Prison in early 1953
This 2003 Russian commemorative envelope and stamp depict the film The Cranes are Flying (center left) and its director Mikhail Kalatozov (upper right). Weinberg's score for the film was a great success.
1988 Soviet commemorative stamp of Winnie-the-PoohListen
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Mieczysław Weinberg was a Polish, Soviet, and Russian composer and pianist. Born in Warsaw to parents who worked in the Yiddish theatre in Poland, his early years were surrounded by music. At the age of 12, he began formal music lessons. Later, he studied piano at the Warsaw Conservatory. In 1939, Weinberg fled Warsaw when Germany invaded Poland and started World War II. His family was later murdered at the Trawniki concentration camp.
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