Karl Eliasberg was a Russian music director known for the legendary performance of the Shostakovich's Seventh Symphony in 1942 during the deadly Siege of Leningrad.
He was born Karl Ilyich Eliasberg on June 10th, 1907, in Minsk, Russia. The family moved to St. Petersburg/Leningrad. There young Eliasberg went to the St. Petersburg conservatory. He studied violin, piano, and conducting, graduating in 1929. During the 1930s he was music director of the Leningrad Radio Symphony Orchestra.
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