Moses Milner

{{short description|Russian composer}}

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| birth_name = Mikhail Arnoldovich Milner

| birth_date = {{Birth year|1886}}

| birth_place = Rokitno Basilovsky, Kiev Governorate, Russian Empire

| death_date = {{Death year and age|1953|1886}}

| death_place = Leningrad, Soviet Union

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| occupation = Pianist, composer

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• Kiev Conservatory
• St. Petersburg Conservatory

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Mikhail "Moshe" Arnoldovich Milner (Мильнер, Михаил "Моше" Арнольдович; 1886–1953) was a Russian Jewish pianist and composer. He is notable as composer, and conductor, of the first Yiddish opera in post-revolution Russia "Die Himlen brenen" ("The Heavens Burn") in 1923.Irene Heskes Passport to Jewish Music: Its History, Traditions, and Culture Page 148 "In particular, the author discusses the careers and contributions of such early activists as Joseph Achron (1886-1943), who settled in the United States in 1925, and Alexander Krein (1883-1951) and Moses Milner (1886-1953), who, with ..."Klára Móricz Jewish Identities: Nationalism, Racism, and Utopianism in ...2008 - Page 21 "..among them composers such as Lev Mordukhov Tseitlin (1884-1930),30 Moses Milner (1886-1953), and Joseph Achron ..."[http://www.rujen.ru/index.php/%D0%9C%D0%98%D0%9B%D0%AC%D0%9D%D0%95%D0%A0_%D0%9C%D0%BE%D1%88%D0%B5_%D0%9C%D0%B8%D1%85%D0%B0%D1%8D%D0%BB%D1%8C Russian Jewish Encyclopedia (Russian)]