jan 3, 1977 - 1977, Soviet Union.

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Mieczysław Weinberg was not subjected to particularly hard personal criticism, but some of his works appeared on a prohibition list, together with music by Shostakovich, Prokofiev and other great colleagues. This was sufficient to create a certain fear of programming his music among concert organisers, and for some time he was forced to earn his living by writing film and theatre music. However, his arrest in 1953 had nothing to do with his music, but rather with the fact that his wife was a close relative of Miron Vovsi, the main defendant at the planned anti-Semitic trial against the “murderers in white coats”, concerning the “Kremlin doctors' Plot”, which had been forged by Stalin and the secret police. Courageously, Shostakovich sent a petition for Weinberg to the infamous NKVD chief Beria, but it was really Stalin's death that liberated Weinberg from prison.
In 1977 he finished his Symphony no. 15 Op.117

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mHYHHbcmgg

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