Moisey Grinberg
Moisey Abramovich Grinberg was a Soviet pianist and music administrator. He was born on 19 July 1904 in Rostov-on-Don.
In 1928, Grinberg graduated from the music faculty of the Rostov Pedagogical Institute, now the Rostov State Pedagogical University, where he studied piano with Vasily Shaub. After graduating, he worked for concert organizations and music publications in Rostov-on-Don and Moscow.
From 1936 he was director of the State Music Publishing House, Muzgiz. He also served as editor-in-chief of the journal Soviet Music from 1937 to 1939, and organized and became the first editor of the specialist newspaper Music. A member of the Union of Soviet Composers from 1937, he additionally headed the Main Music Administration of the All-Union Committee for Arts from 1938.
With Grinberg's participation, the State Choir, the State Orchestra of Folk Instruments, the State Jazz Orchestra of the Soviet Union, the State Wind Orchestra, and the State Dance Ensemble of the Peoples of the Soviet Union were established. He also helped conduct nationwide festivals of Soviet music and organized music competitions and congresses of Soviet composers.
From 1939 to 1941, Grinberg was deputy artistic director of the Moscow Music Theatre named after Konstantin Stanislavsky and Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko. He headed the Music Broadcasting Administration of All-Union Radio from 1941 to 1949, and from 1953 worked as music director and artistic director of the Moscow State Academic Philharmonic. He wrote several music-critical articles, including the 1953 collection Soviet Opera: A Collection of Critical Articles, co-authored with N. Polyakova.
Grinberg died in Moscow on 13 October 1968. He was buried with his wife, the pianist Tatyana Goldfarb, at Novodevichy Cemetery.
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