Grinberg, Grigory Alexandrovich

Born in the city of Irkutsk ( Eastern Siberia ). At the age of nine, after participating in a musical show, he was recognized as the best accordion player in Eastern Siberia and the Far East. At 11, he entered the Irkutsk School of Music. His first teacher was clarinet player Pavel Pavlovich Gogolev - Conductor of the Irkutsk Theater Young Spectator Orchestra. After graduating from the ninth grade, Gregory began working in the theater.

In 1941 , almost immediately after the start of World War II , he was drafted into the Soviet army . He entered the Irkutsk Engineering Mine (mine) school, which he graduated on January 30, 1942 (early graduation). After graduating from college, Lieutenant Grigory Grinberg was sent to the front, where he was a platoon commander in a separate 364th special-purpose fighter battalion. He received his first baptism of fire near Moscow as a sapper. In December 1942 , in the battles near Volokolamsk he was seriously injured, and spent four months in the hospital.

He fought on the fronts: Central, 1st Ukrainian, Don, 1st and 2nd Belorussian, North-West, Voronezh and Stalingrad.

For taking the height of 261 by storm on the Kalinin Front, he was awarded the Order of the Red Star . He was also awarded two Orders of the Red Banner for his military exploits, one of which was personally handed to him by Marshal K.K. Rokosovsky for saving the commander of his battalion, and the Order of the Patriotic War .

At the end of the war, he was the commander and military conductor of a musical platoon in the tank corps of General Lelyushenko. In the victorious 45th, Major Greenberg, as a conductor, marched through the streets of the defeated Berlin, at the head of one of the columns of the combined brass band.

After the war he continued to conduct a military band. In 1947 , with the consent of the military command, he entered the composer department of the Moscow Conservatory, combining training with work in an orchestra. Along the way, improved in playing the clarinet. One of his teachers was Dmitry Shostakovich .

At the end of the conservatory he was sent to Dushanbe. He also lived in Siberia, Moldova, and Crimea, as part of a limited composition of the Soviet troops in Mongolia - where he served as a conductor of a colonel of 120 military musicians with the rank of guard colonel. He taught at music schools, personally supervised the work of various musical groups, composed music.

In 1997 he repatriated to Israel. After repatriation, his military decorations were supplemented by: Zhukov Medal , Commemorative Badge “50 Years of Liberation of Ukraine” , Medal “50 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War” , Israeli Jubilee Medal “60 Years of Victory over Nazism”, and others.

He is the author of many musical works. Among them: while working at the Tajik Opera and Ballet Theater, he staged the opera “The Taras Family” and wrote the music for the ballet “There was a Dushanbe village”. He is also the author of songs: “Khristinovka is my love”, “ Be'er Sheva ”, “Grandson was born”, “Heart suddenly asked for warmth”, and others. In addition, he composed music for the children's opera-tale "Forest Incident" on the libretto by Natasha Lange and the ballet "Thumbelina".