Mieczysław Weinberg, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Mieczysław Weinberg

Soviet composer

Date of Birth: 08-Dec-1919

Place of Birth: Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland

Date of Death: 26-Feb-1996

Profession: composer, pianist

Nationality: Russia

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Mieczyslaw Weinberg (also Moisey or Moishe Vainberg, Moisey Samuilovich Vaynberg; Russian: ?????? ?????????? ????????; Polish: Mojsze [Mieczyslaw] Wajnberg; 8 December 1919 – 26 February 1996) was a Polish-born Soviet composer.
His music, often programmatic, was influenced by his friend Dmitri Shostakovich.
Weinberg's corpus is extensive, including 22 symphonies and seven operas.