Background
He was born in Odessa (former Russian Empire, now Ukraine), and died in Czernowitz (former Chernovtsy, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics, now Chernivtsi, Ukraine).
He was born in Odessa (former Russian Empire, now Ukraine), and died in Czernowitz (former Chernovtsy, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics, now Chernivtsi, Ukraine).
Demonstrating a great talent for music, he was accepted into the newly founded Odessa Conservatory in the class of Witold Maliszewski. After graduation Shteynberg continued composing, first as a freelancer and later as a music director of Russian and Yiddish theaters in Ukraine. He became the music director and the major composer of the Kiev Jewish Theater since its inception in the 1920s till its liquidation at the height of Stalin"s anti-Semitic campaign.
His great-grandson Vladislav Adelkhanov is an internationally acclaimed violinist.