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Mieczysław Weinberg

1919 - 1996

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Mieczysław Weinberg (December 8, 1919 – February 26, 1996) 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. He taught himself to play the piano at a young age and eventually became skilled enough to substitute for his father as a conductor at Warsaw's Jewish Theatre. During this period, he began to compose. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Mieczysław Weinberg is the 352nd most popular composer (up from 388th in 2019), the 287th most popular biography from Poland (up from 331st in 2019) and the 10th most popular Polish Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Mieczysław Weinberg ranks 352 out of 1,451. Before him are Luigi Dallapiccola, Germaine Tailleferre, Riccardo Broschi, Michel Richard Delalande, Ralph Vaughan Williams, and Hugo Alfvén. After him are Samuel Scheidt, Jan Ladislav Dussek, Rodolphe Kreutzer, Willem Mengelberg, Hans Richter, and Anatoly Lyadov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1919, Mieczysław Weinberg ranks 58. Before him are James Lovelock, Georges Duby, Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado, Abdel Hakim Amer, Chavela Vargas, and Ian Smith. After him are Valentino Mazzola, Peter Abrahams, Ryszard Kaczorowski, José Villalonga, Licio Gelli, and Charles Sweeney. Among people deceased in 1996, Mieczysław Weinberg ranks 63. Before him are Georges Duby, Victor Ambartsumian, Obdulio Varela, Pat Brown, Rafael Kubelík, and Mohamed Farrah Aidid. After him are Leonor Fini, Walter M. Miller Jr., María Casares, Brigitte Helm, Lucio Fulci, and Toru Takemitsu.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Mieczysław Weinberg ranks 287 out of 1,694. Before him are Kurt Masur (1927), Adam Stefan Sapieha (1867), Dieter Wisliceny (1911), Stanisława Walasiewicz (1911), Adam Czerniaków (1880), and David Seymour (1911). After him are Victor Klemperer (1881), Leopold Infeld (1898), Robert Wiene (1873), Edward Gierek (1913), Józef Maria Hoene-Wroński (1776), and Erich Fellgiebel (1886).

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Among COMPOSERS In Poland

Among composers born in Poland, Mieczysław Weinberg ranks 10. Before him are Henryk Górecki (1933), Martin Agricola (1486), Moritz Moszkowski (1854), Nikolai Myaskovsky (1881), Sylvius Leopold Weiss (1687), and Maria Szymanowska (1789). After him are Grażyna Bacewicz (1909), Viktor Ullmann (1898), Józef Elsner (1769), Tekla Bądarzewska-Baranowska (1834), Johann Adam Hiller (1728), and Alexandre Tansman (1897).

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