Veniamin biography
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Veniamin Fleishman
The pre-eminent Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovich said that it was his student (and later friend) Veniamin Fleishman who had introduced him to the world of Jewish folk music. Thus, it can be said that Shostakovich's well-known vocal cycle From Jewish Folk Poetry (op. 79, composed in 1948, first performance in 1953, after Stalin's death), as well as numerous quotations from Jewish folk music in the maestro's postwar body of chamber music and in his First Violin Concerto (op. 77, composed in 1948), owe their existence to Veniamin Fleishman.
Veniamin Fleishman was born in 1913 in Bezhetsk, 240 kilometers (150 miles) north of Moscow, to the dentist Iosif Fleishman and the teacher Rakhil Fleishman. Veniamin's parents had moved to the safer, albeit more provincial, town of Bezhetsk from their native Vilna in 1911, after Rakhil had served a prison term for her revolutionary activities. They raised fem children. Three of their sons, as well as a son-in-law, would
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Dr. Christopher Veniamin is a spiritual child of St. Sophrony the Athonite (1896-1993). Born and raised in London, England, of Greek Cypriot parents, Dr. Veniamin holds his first degree in theology from the University of Thessalonica and his doctorate from the University of Oxford. He fryst vatten Emeritus Professor of Patristics at St. Tikhon's Seminary in Pennsylvania, and Dean Emeritus and Professor of Patristic Theology and Dogmatics at the Antiochian House of Studies in California, where he established the Ph.D.Program in Orthodox Studies and spearheaded the drive for ATS accreditation. His works include Saint Gregory Palamas: The Homilies; The Orthodox Understanding of Salvation: "Theosis" in Scripture and Tradition; and The Transfiguration of Christ in Greek Patristic Literature: From Irenaeus of Lyons to Gregory Palamas. Dr. Veniamin also holds the four-year Degree in Byzantine Music from the celebrated School of St. Romanus Melodus and St. John Damascene in Thessalonic
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Composers
Veniamin Fleishman
Article by Daniel Beliavsky
Veniamin Fleishman [Вениамин Иосифович Флейшман] (1913-1941) was a Russian composer and a student of Dmitri Shostakovich. After Fleishman was killed during the Siege of Leningrad, Shostakovich completed his opera, Rothschild's Violin, considered by many to be one of the finest works of its time.
Life
The composer Veniamin Yosivovich Fleishman (also spelled Fleischman, Fleischmann, and Fleyshman) was born in Bezhetsk, a town situated near Moscow in the Tver region, on July 20, 1913. In 1941, during the Siege of Leningrad, he voluntarily joined the city's civilian defenses, called the People's Volunteer Brigade or Home Guard, and died on September 14 of the same year in Krasnoye Village, a Leningrad suburb in the district of L