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Max Shakhnovich Fishman (Polish: Mietek Fiszman /Fischman/, Romanian: Max Fișman, Russian: Макс Шахнович Фишман, known as Max Benovich Fishman), December 12, 1915, Warsaw, Poland — September 24, 1985, Chișinău, Moldova) was a Moldavian Soviet composer, pianist, and teacher, brought up on the basis of Jewish, Polish, and Russian culture.^[1][2]

Max Fishman was born on December 12, 1915, in Warsaw, in the family of an entrepreneur and the head of the Warsaw synagogue Shahno-Beinish Fishman (1870 – July 1, 1936) and Esther Fishman, née Bleiberg (1880 – presumably after 1940). He had six older sisters and a younger brother.

He studied at the Warsaw Conservatory with Józef Turczyński (piano)^[3] and Antoni Marek (composition).

As a student, he actively composed music and participated in concerts collaborated with popular Polish actresses Ida Kaminska and Lola Folman, hypnotist, and illusionist Wolf Messing, and performed at the famous orphan school Janusz Korczak, where he worked as an educator in the summer months. In August 1939 he was drafted into the army, and during the attack of when Nazi Germany on Poland on September 1, he actively participated in the anti-fascist resistance.

Fleeing from Nazi persecution, on October 21, 1939, he swam crossed the Western Bug with his nephew Pawel Gruenspan (1920–2000, a Polish pianist, composer, and leader of the Jazz Orchestra)^[4][5] and ended up in the territory occupied by the Soviet Union under the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. He was arrested by the NKVD, where, instead of the surname Metek, they wrote the name Max Fishman and put him in a camp.^[6][7]

Max Fishman was "lucky" in the spring of 1940, he was not shot in Katyn, but sent to the Labor army, (NKVD labor columns), in fact, the Gulag, with which he traveled most of the territory of the USSR working on construction sites, loggings, and in Aktyubinsk, in Kazakhstan),^[8] he dragged trolleys with chrome ore from deep mines. In September 1944, after a concert of patriotic songs, where, under the leadership of Max Fishman, the group from the Labor Army sang patriotic songs, to improve the image of the USSR in the eyes of the Polish army on the territory of the USSR, he, with frostbite on his hands and poor health, was released and sent to study at the Saratov Conservatory. Later, for all his hard labor trials, he was awarded the Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945". During the war, almost all of his relatives perished in the Warsaw ghetto. Many of them participated in the 1943 uprising.^[7]

At the Saratov Conservatory, he studied piano with Professor E. M. Singer, from where he was transferred to the Minsk Conservatory in 1945. There he studied with Professor G. N. Petrov (piano) and listened to lectures on composition by Professor A.V. Bogatyrev, although formally he was not his registered student. In 1945 he married Lydia Axionov. After graduating from the Minsk Conservatory, Max Fishman had great difficulties with his job in Minsk, since at that time in the USSR there was an extensive campaign against cosmopolitanism, with anti-Semitic essence. After working at the Musical College of Gomel, he and his wife were sent to Moldavia.

Since 1952, he worked at the Chisinau Conservatory (later renamed the Chișinău Institute of Arts named after G. Muzicescu, currently the Academy of Music, Theater and Fine Arts) as an accompanist, and piano teacher. He also taught piano at the Calarasi Pedagogical College and at the music school in the village Carpineni.^[9][10][11]

Max Fishman was actively involved in composing. Dozens of different genres remained in the creative portfolio: 4 concertos for piano and orchestra, sonata for clarinet and piano, sonata for violin and piano, trio, pieces for piano and various instruments, and symphonic and choral works>^[12]

Max Fishman died on September 24, 1985, in Chisinau. He was buried at the Chisinau cemetery of St. Lazarus (also called "Doina")^[13][14]

His wife Lydia Valeryanovna Axionova (July 19, 1923 — September 18, 2019) was a Soviet and Moldovan Сhoir Сonductor, the first woman Сonductor of the Symphony Orchestra in Moldova, the first in Moldova who got the academic title Professor of Сhoral Сonducting.^[15] Their sons: actor, and director Băno Axionov (b. 1946) and pianist, and teacher Artur Aksenov (b.1956). ^{[16][17][18][19][20]}

• 4 piano concertos^{[21][22][23][24]}
• Suite for large symphony orchestra (1961)
• Jazz Overture^[25]

• Piece for oboe and symphony orchestra (until 1961)
• Fantasy for small symphony orchestra^[26]

• Variations for piano (1955)
• Ten Miniatures for Piano on Moldavian Folk Melodies (1955)^[27]
• The cycle of 5 preludes for piano (1956);
• "Mazurka. Memories of Poland" (1956)
• Two trios for piano, violin, and cello. (1954–1958)^[28][29]
• Capriccio E Minor for piano (1961)
• Sonatina for clarinet and piano in B (1963)^{[30][31][32][33]}
• Sonatina for piano (3 movements) (1963)^[34]
• Romance (arrangement for trombone and piano, 1963),
• 5 Preludes for Piano (Remembrance, Spring is Coming, Estrada Echoes, On the Lake, On May Day)
• Scherzino for clarinet and piano in B (1964)
• Scherzo (arranged for trombone and piano, 1964)
• 4 studies for piano (1968)
• Sonatina for piano d-moll (3 movements) (1968)
• Ten Piano Pieces on Moldavian Themes (1969),
• Prelude in e-moll for piano (1968)
• Canon for choir (Moldovan folk song) (1973)
• Polyphonic piano cycle Canons (1976)
• Sonata for violin and piano in d-moll
• 4 studies
• Ten piano pieces on Moldovan themes (miniatures Dance, Variations, Olandra, Canon, Youth, Variations, Comic, Variations, Song, Jock)
• Scherzino G-dur for piano,
• Concert piece for violin and piano
• Humoresque for violin and piano^[35]
• Cantata "Glory to Young Eagles" (dedicated to young fighters against Nazism) to the words of S. Varelopulus 1959^{[36] [37]}
• Choir "Autumn" ("What are you rocking…?") to the words of Mihai Eminescu. 1964.
• Choir "Harvesting" to the words of Vasile Alecsandri.^[37]

In 2006, a disc was released with recordings of music by M. Fishman (from the funds of "Teleradio Moldova", total time - 78:19.04), which included:

• Variations for piano. Performed by Lyudmila Vaverco, recorded in 1956.
• Trio on Moldovan themes for piano, violin and cello. Performed by Lyudmila Vaverco (piano), Oscar Dayn (violin), Vsevolod Dubrovsky (cello), recorded in 1958.
• Piece for oboe and orchestra. Performed by Dmitry Rotar (oboe), MSSR Radio and Television Orchestra, conductor Alexander Vasechkin, recorded in 1961.
• Sonatina for piano. Performed by Ghitlea Strakhilevich, recorded in 1963.
• Concert piece for violin and piano. Performed by Lilia Neaga (violin), Ghitlea Strakhilevich (piano) recording in 1964.
• Humoresque for violin and piano. Performed by Lilia Neaga (violin), Ghitlea Strakhilevich, (piano) recording in 1964.
• Sonata for Violin and Piano. Performed by Lilia Neaga (violin), Ghitlea Strakhilevihi (piano) recording in 1964.
• Sonata for clarinet and piano. Performed by Evgeny Verbețsky (clarinet), Ghitlea Strakhilevich, (piano) recording in 1964.
• Scherzino for clarinet and piano. Performed by Evgeny Verbețsky (clarinet), Ghitlea Strakhilevich (piano) recording in 1964.
• Capriccio for piano. Performed by Ghitlea Strakhilevich, recorded in 1964.
• Etude in G major for piano. Performed by Ghitlea Strakhilevich, recorded in 1964.
• Etude in D minor for piano. Performed by Ghitlea Strahilevici, recorded in 1964.
• Choir "Autumn" ("What are you rocking…?") to the words of Mihai Eminescu. Performed by the Conservatory Choir, conductor Lydia Axionov, recorded on June 23, 1964.
• Choir "Harvesting" to the words of Vasile Alecsandri. Performed by the Conservatory Choir, conductor Lydia Axionov, recorded in June 23, 1964.^[38]

• Fishman M. Hunting. Chisinau: State Publishing House of Moldova, 1956 (Фишман М. La vânătoare. Chișinău: Editura de stat a Moldovei, 1956)^[39]
• Fishman M. Sonatina d-moll for piano. Chișinău: Kartya Moldovenyaska, 1968 (Фишман М. Сонатина d-moll для фортепиано. Кишинёв: Картя Mолдовеняскэ, 1968).^[34]
• Fishman M. Prelude and four studies for pianoforte. TsGARM, F. 3050, Op. 2, D. 309. (Фишман М. Прелюдия и четыре этюда для фортепиано. ЦГАРМ, Ф. 3050, Оп. 2, Д. 309).
• Fishman M. Capriccio, Scherzino. Selected works of Moldovan composers. Chișinău: Kartya Moldovenyaska, 1961, p. 150-172. (Фишман М. Каприччио, Скерцино. В: Избранные произведения молдавских композиторов. Кишинёв: Картя Молдовеняскэ, 1961, с. 150-172).
• Fishman M. Sonatina E-flat Major for clarinet in B. Chișinău: Kartya Moldovenyaska, 1963. (Фишман М. Сонатина Es-dur для кларнета in B. Кишинёв: Картя Молдовеняскэ, 1963).^[31]

• Tamara Melnik, associate professor, PhD in the study of arts: Composer and Professor Max Fishman MinisterulI Culturii al Republicii Moldova. Acadmia de Muzică, Teatru şi Arte Plastice. In: Anuar ştiinţific: muzică, teatru, arte plastice, 2011, nr. 1-2(12-13), pp. 85-90. ISSN 1857-2251
• Victoria Tcacenco, associate professor, PhD in the study of arts: Overture by Max Fişman in Prfofessional European Music and the Third Layer Interaction Context MinisterulI Culturii al Republicii Moldova. Acadmia de Muzică, Teatru şi Arte Plastice. In: Anuar Ştiinţific: Muzică, Teatru, Arte Plastice 2012, nr. 3 pp. 238 - 244 ISSN 1857-2251
• Tamara Melnik, associate professor, PhD in the study of arts: The Concerto for Piano and Orchestra Es-dur by M. Fishman in the Romanticism Traditions Context MinisterulI Culturii al Republicii Moldova. Acadmia de Muzică, Teatru şi Arte Plastice. In:Anuar Ştiinţific: Muzică, Teatru, Arte Plastice 2012, nr. 4 pp. 59 – 64 ISSN 1857-2251
• Cuzneţova Nadejda, Senior Lecturer: Historical chronology of the cantatas by the composers from the RepubIc of Moldova: the 1950s" (composers - V. Zagorschi, S. Löbel, Z. Tkaci, S. Lungul, M. Fishman, G. Borş) Studiul Artelor şi Culturologie: Istorie, Teorie, Practică – NR. 2 (25), 2015 pp. 132 – 144 ISSN 2345–1408
• Pleșcan Irina, vice-rector, Institute of Arts, Tiraspol: The piano trio by M. Fishman as a sound document of its era MinisterulI Culturii al Republicii Moldova. Acadmia de Muzică, Teatru şi Arte Plastice. Studiul Artelor şi Culturologie: istorie, teorie, practică - NR. 2 (25), 2015 pp. 66 – 76 ISSN 2345–1408
• Larisa Balaban: associate professor, PhD in the study of arts Works by the Composers of the Republic of Moldova from the Library of the Symphony Orchestra of the S. Lunchevici National Philharmonic MinisterulI Culturii al Republicii Moldova. Acadmia de Muzică, Teatru şi Arte Plastice. Studiul Artelor şi Culturologie: istorie, teorie, practică - NR. 2 (25), 2015 pp. 23 – 29 ISSN 2345–1408
• Ilana Elizarova: "Without the right to create. To the 100th anniversary of the composer, pianist, teacher Max Fishman" Jewish World (newspaper of Russian-speaking America) 01/09/2015
• Tamara Melnik, associate professor, PhD in the study of arts: Studying the Composer's Creation of the Republic of Moldova in the Context of Scientific and Methodological Activities of the Complementary Piano Department of the Academy of Music, Theatre and Fine Arts in the 50s –60s of the 20th Century (based on the documents from the National Archive of the Republic of Moldova) MinisterulI Culturii al Republicii Moldova. Acadmia de Muzică, Teatru şi Arte Plastice. Studiul Artelor şi Culturologie: istorie, teorie, practică - 2014, nr.1 pp.177 - 183 ISSN 2345–1408
• Olga Bulychevskaya: Music enlivens life. To the 100th anniversary of the birth of composer Max Fishman Information and analytical portal AVA.MD November 4, 2015

• Baranov Ecaterina Bibliothèque Compositeurs de Moldavie Max Fishman