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MIECZYSLAW WEINBERG IN SEARCH OF FREEDOM - DAVI...

David Fanning's book is the first full account of Weinberg's life and works in any language.
Drawing on unpublished materials in the family archives and on the personal reminiscences of
those close to Weinberg  he tells the story of a composer who devoted his life to music against
heavy odds  memorializing those who did not live to share in his problematic freedom.
Mieczyslaw Weinberg (1919-96) made two narrow escapes from the Nazis: in 1939 from his native
Warsaw to Minsk  then in 1941 to Tashkent. He settled in Moscow from 1943 until his death  and
rapidly became recognised as one of the USSR's finest composers  enjoying a relationship of
enduring mutual respect with Shostakovich. His symphonies  string quartets  sonatas and
concertos were championed by artists of the standing of Oistrakh  Kogan  Rostropovich  Gilels 
Fedoseyev and the Borodin Quartet  and he remained forever grateful to his adopted country for
his life and career.Yet his freedom came at a price. He was chastened by the anti-formalism
campaigns of the late-1940s  and in 1953 he was arrested  accused of 'bourgeois Jewish
nationalism'. The death of Stalin helped to secure his release  and though his health never
entirely recovered  he resumed his prolific output. Neglected in his adopted country towards
the end of his life  his profoundly humane music has seen a remarkable posthumous renaissance
in the West  where his operas in particular are being rediscovered  including The Passenger 
which can claim to be the finest musical work ever composed in commemoration of Auschwitz.

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