Mieczysław Weinberg

Mieczysław Weinberg is a Classical artist from SU, born on December 8, 1919.

Mieczysław Weinberg (also Moisey Vainberg, Moisey Samuilovich Vaynberg; Russian Моисей Самуилович Вайнберг; Polish Mieczysław Wajnberg) (December 8, 1919 in Warsaw – February 26, 1996 in Moscow) was an important Soviet composer of Polish-Jewish origin. He lived in the Soviet Union and Russia since 1939 and lost most of his family in the Holocaust. He left a large body of work that included twenty-two symphonies and seventeen string quartets; according to one reviewer he ranked as .