Karl Eliasberg
Karl Eliasberg · Arts & Literature
Orchestra conductor
1907, Minsk — 1978, Leningrad, Soviet Union
Soviet Union (Russia)
Karl Eliasberg is recognized among Jewish contributors to Arts & Literature — Orchestra conductor
Karl Eliasberg, a Soviet conductor of Jewish descent, led the Leningrad Radio Orchestra in the 1942 wartime premiere of Shostakovich's Seventh Symphony inside the besieged city—a performance of extraordinary defiance broadcast toward the enemy lines.
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Orchestra conductor
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