A weighted sum of independent Poisson random variables $X_1 + 2X_2 + 3X_3+\dots+nX_n$

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I have that for $1 \leq i \leq n$, the mutually independent random variables

$$X_i \sim \text{Poisson}(\mu_i)$$

Then what is the distribution of $$Y \sim \sum_{i=1}^{n}i X_i$$ It looks a bit like an expectation, so I am interested to know if anything is known about it? Otherwise, the best we can do to obtain $P(Y = k)$ is to sum over integer partitions of $k$ with part numbers which are Poissonly distributed with means $\mu_1, \mu_2,\dots$ etc?