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Samuil Feinberg

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Samuil Feinberg · Arts & Literature

What

Pianist and composer

When

1890, Odessa, Russian Empire (now Ukraine) — 1962, Moscow, Soviet Union

Where

Ukraine · Russia/Soviet Union

Biography

Samuil Feinberg is recognized among Jewish contributors to Arts & Literature — Pianist and composer

How & why

Samuil Feinberg was a Russian-Soviet pianist and composer, renowned as an interpreter of Bach and Scriabin and as the author of piano sonatas and concertos in a late-Romantic, expressionist idiom, as well as a long-serving professor at the Moscow Conservatory. He was born to a Jewish family in Odessa and is Jewish. He was among the most respected Soviet keyboard artists of his generation.

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Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Music

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Pianist and composer

1890

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Music