Mieczysaw Weinberg - Rhapsody on Moldavian Theme

December 8, 1919 -- February 26, 1996) was a Soviet composer of Polish-Jewish origin. From 1939 he lived in the Soviet Union and Russia and lost most of his family in the Holocaust. He left a large body of work that included twenty-two symphonies and seventeen string quartets; according to one reviewer he ranked as, “the third great Soviet composer, along with Prokofiev and Shostakovich“