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The main goal of the Mieczysław Weinberg Institute Foundation is to commemorate, research, and promote the legacy of composer Mieczysław Weinberg and other Polish composers of Jewish origin.
The Foundation was established in 2020 on the initiative of Maria Sławek and Ania Karpowicz. Since its inception, the Institute has carried out numerous projects both locally and nationwide. In 2021, we facilitated the naming of Wajnberg Street in Warsaw’s Wola district and the installation of a commemorative plaque on the composer’s former residence. Every year, we organize a musical event called “House Party at Mietek Weinberg’s” at the composer’s birthplace—66 Żelazna Street in Warsaw. We also developed the “Weinberg’s Warsaw Walking Guide,” available in three languages (Polish, English, and Yiddish) in both print and digital formats at http://www.warszawawajnberga.pl.
Additionally, we conducted a community crowd-writing campaign called “A Postcard to Mietek,” where residents of Warsaw anonymously responded to the question, “What are you running away from?” This initiative will serve as the basis for a new composition by Wojciech Błażejczyk and Sylwia Chutnik.
We regularly organize concerts, thematic walks, and have been partners of the WarszeMuzik festival. Since 2024, we have been organizing the Rywka Tiktiner Jewish Music Festival in Tykocin (www.tiktiner.pl).
We also support the releases of albums by Polish artists, including Maria Sławek and the Lutosławski Quartet, Messages Quartet and Piotr Lato, Aleksandra Demowska-Madejska, Szymon Krzeszowiec and Piotr Sałajczyk.
Among the Institute’s friends are renowned artists such as Gidon Kremer and Yulianna Avdeeva. We also maintain ongoing contact with the composer’s daughter and granddaughter.
We compile and publish materials related to Weinberg in academic publications and specialist journals, and we collaborate with Polish Radio Channel 2. Our activities target both audiences in Warsaw and listeners across Poland. We are expanding our international network, as exemplified by an interview with the Institute’s founders conducted by Bayerischer Rundfunk in connection with the Munich premiere of Weinberg’s opera “The Passenger.”
We also work closely with institutions such as POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews and the Jewish Historical Institute.
Our work has been supported by funding from the City of Warsaw, the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, STOART, ZAIKS, and the Jewish Historical Institute Association.
Together with the Sfera Harmonii foundation, we have already carried out two large projects in the first year of our operation: “Warsaw Walkabout with Weinberg” and “House Party at Mietek Weinberg’s.” We cooperated with the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews at the Polin Music Festival. We inaugurated a series of podcasts – conversations with musicians, composers, directors, and musicologists who research Weinberg’s work. We also received a grant from the Association of the Jewish Historical Institute and ZAIKS.
Mieczysław Weinberg was born in 1919 in Warsaw, at 66 Żelazna Street. His family house still stands on the corner of Żelazna and Krochmalna Streets – one of the few tenement houses that have survived to our times. Weinberg, his parents, Shmuel and Sura Dwojra, and his sister Estera lived in Warsaw for twenty years. He studied piano at the Warsaw Conservatory, worked in famous venues such as “Adria” or “Oaza,” and helped his father compose music for numerous Jewish theatres. His Warsaw life ended in September 1939. Like many other residents of the city, the Weinbergs decided to escape from besieged Warsaw and head East. As a result of an unfortunate series of events, Mietek reached the border alone. He could not have known that he would never see his loved ones again, that his beloved Warsaw would cease to exist, and that he would live and work in Moscow for the rest of his life.
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