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Maximilian Steinberg
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Maximilian Osseyevich Steinberg (Russian Максимилиан Осеевич Штейнберг; born O.s June 22 / July 4, 1883 in Vilnius – December 6, 1946 in Leningrad) was a Russian composer of classical music born in what is now Lithuania. Steinberg, born into a Jewish family, spent his youth in Vilnius and only in 1901 left for Saint Petersburg, to study the natural sciences there. At the same time his great interest in music and his study at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory began, as did his contact with such personages as Anatoly Lyadov, Alexander Glazunov, and Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. His considerable talent in composition soon showed, encouraged especially by his mentor Rimsky-Korsakov. So gained Steinberg diplomas both in the natural sciences, in 1907, and in music in 1908. In this same year 1908 he married Rimsky-Korsakov's daughter Nadezhda, and became, first a lecturer, then in 1915 Professor for Composition and Orchestration at the Conservatory. He held numerous posts at the conservatory; among other things, he was, from 1934 to 1939 a deputy director, before he went into retirement in 1946. Steinberg played an important role in Soviet music life as a teacher of composers such as Dmitri Shostakovich and Yuri Shaporin. Steinberg was considered first as a great hope of Russian music, and was occasionally even more highly estimated than his student colleague, Igor Stravinsky. He rejected Stravinsky's and other modern styles, staying close in many of his compositions to the style of h
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Passion Week, Op. 13: Of Thy Mystical Supper
1,0932Passion Week: Of Your Mystical Supper
5363Passion Week, Op. 13: VI. Of Thy Mystical Supper
1104Passion Week, Op. 13: Alleluia
1015Passion Week, Op. 13: The Noble Joseph
676Passion Week, Op. 13: When the Glorious Disciples
637Passion Week, Op. 13: Thy Bridal Chamber
628Passion Week, Op. 13: Behold, the Bridegroom Comes
569Passion Week, Op. 13: Alliluiya (Alleluia)
5610Passion Week, Op. 13: The Master's Hospitality
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Steinberg: Passion Week
Steinberg: Symphony No.2; Variations Op.2
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Steinberg: Passion Week, Op. 13
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Classical Chillout: Choral, Vol. 1
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ARSM I, Vol. 42. Rimsky-Korsakov
Steinberg: Symphony No.2 / Variations Op. 2
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Steinberg: Symphony No. 2 (Gothenburg SO/Järvi)
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Symphony No. 2 / Variations Op. 2
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Steinberg: Symphony No. 2, Variations for Orchestra
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Symphony no. 2 / Variations, op. 2
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Variations Op.2 - Symphony No. 2
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Steinberg: Symphony No. 1 (Gothenburg SO/Järvi)