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2018-12-03 13:51:20
Mieczysław Weinberg, 2018
[…] world encouraging support for the Soviet Union, was assassinated on Stalin’s orders. The murder was covered up as a road accident. At the time of Stalin’s campaign against “cosmopolitanism” (read anti-Jewish, antisemitic campaign) that followed, all prominent Jews were at risk. Weinberg was no exception: in February of 1953 he was arrested as a “Jewish bourgeois nationalist” and sent to the Gulag. Shostakovich, who wasn’t known for his civic courage, sent a letter to Lavrentiy Beria pleading his friend’s innocence (it didn’t help). Weinberg and many other Jews were saved by Stalin’s sudden death in March of 1953. Weinberg was allowed to return to Moscow. His family found a place not far from Shostakovich’s apartment; they visited each other often. Weinberg continued composing; his work, championed by Shostakovich, was also endorsed by several prominent performers and conductors, among them Emil Gilels, Leonid Kogan, Mstislav Rostropovich, Rudolph Barshai and Kirill Kondrashin. […]
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