Reply To: Polish Film Music?
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Sorry for the delay, haven’t visited this post for a while..
Mieczysław (“Moisey”) Weinberg. Or Mojsze Wajnberg. Or Moisei Vainberg. Wonderful composer, but one who hardly appears in any musical encyclopaedia, even those which are inches thick. He was catapulted into my top echelon of composers after picking up several of his symphonies on Naxos.
Given his close relationship with Shostakovich (who literally put his life on the line for him at one stage) I was surprised that I wasn’t really aware of him from the many books I have about the letter’s life and times.
He also wrote a few film scores, chief amongst them Kalatozov’s excellent soviet anti-war film from 1957, The Cranes Are Flying.