- Weinberg composed this string symphony in 1946.1
- In his review of the 2019 Deutsche Grammophon release of this symphony, Norman Lebrecht observes that Weinberg wrote it shortly after he had learned that the Nazis had murdered his family in Poland.2
Sources
- Lyudmilla Dmitriyevna Nikitina, “Weinberg [Vaynberg], Moisey [Mieczysław] Samuilovich” Grove Music Online (2001), acessed April 28, 2022, https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000029094.
- Norman Lebrecht, “Mieczyslaw Weinberg : Symphonies nos 2 and 21 (Deutsche Grammophon),” La Scena Online (May 10, 2019), accessed April 28, 2022, https://myscena.org/norman-lebrecht/mieczyslaw-weinberg-symphonies-nos-2-and-21-deutsche-grammophon/.
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23047