- Weinberg wrote Concertino for Violin and String Orchestra in Moscow in 1948. The concertino consists of three movements.
- 1948 marked a turning point on Weinberg’s personal welfare, coinciding with Stalin’s attack on Western musical ideas that exhibited “formalism and cosmopolitanism,” particularly those created by Jewish artists, as well as an violent turn towards anti-Semitism.
- Weinberg lost his father-in-law this same year, actor Solomon Mikhoels, whose murder was carried out by the state secret police.
- 1948 marked a turning point on Weinberg’s personal welfare, coinciding with Stalin’s attack on Western musical ideas that exhibited “formalism and cosmopolitanism,” particularly those created by Jewish artists, as well as an violent turn towards anti-Semitism.
- Concertino for Violin and String Orchestra is an example of the neoclassical works Weinberg wrote in adherence to Stalin’s new protocol for accessible music that could be easily understood by the public.1
Sources
- “Biography: Mieczysław Weinberg,” Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, accessed September 15, 2025, https://www.aso.org/composer/detail/mieczyslaw-weinberg.
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