thought that maybe the brightest moments of your life are gone. The city now lives a peaceful life, but no one has the right to forget the past." The third time was 9 May 1975 three years before his death. In 1978 Eliasberg died, almost forgotten, and his ashes were buried in a small plot at the back of the Piskaryovskoye Memorial Cemetery. After the fall of Communism, Yuri Temirkanov led a resurrection of Eliasberg's reputation and mayor Anatoly Sobchak arranged for Eliasberg's ashes to be moved to a more suitable grave among the Literatorskie Mostki at the Volkovo Cemetery. Recordings Brahms: German Requiem (rec. 1960), Symphony No.3 (rec. 1948), Symphony No. 4 (live concert recording, May 9, 1960), Double Concerto (rec. 1951, with David Oistrakh and Sviatoslav Knushevitsky) Mahler: Symphony No. 4 with soprano Natalya Rozhdestvenskaya USSR State Symphony Orchestra. Rec. Oct 19, 1954 Shostakovich: Symphony No. 7 Leningrad Philharmonic. Live concert recording, Jan 27, 1964 Sergei Taneyev: Symphonies No. 1 and No. 3 J. S. Bach Mass in B minor. Live concert recording, April 24, 1957) In popular culture The Leningrad Radio Orchestra's performance of Shostakovich's Seventh Symphony conducted by Karl Eliasberg is the subject of the 2011 novel The Conductor by New Zealand author Sarah Quigley. The concert during the Leningrad siege was commemorated in the 1997 film The War Symphonies: Shostakovich Against Stalin and featured in the documentary Leningrad and the Orchestra that defied Hitler, broadcast on BBC Two on 2 January 2016. Earlier radio broadcasts by the BBC on the same subject include Witness and Newshour. References 1907 births 1978 deaths Musicians from Minsk 20th-century Russian conductors (music) Russian male conductors (music) 20th-century Russian male musicians Saint Petersburg Conservatory alumni