Nikolay miaskovsky biography

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This biography reappraises the life and work of Nikolay Myaskovsky (1881-1950) - a central figure in twentieth-century Russian musical culture.
Nikolai Yakovlevich Myaskovsky, was a Russian and Soviet composer.

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Nikolay Myaskovsky: A Composer and his Times – A life story of riveting interest

Nikolay Myaskovsky: A Composer and his Times

Author:Patrick Zuk

ISBN-13:978-1783275755

Publisher:Boydell Press

Guideline Price:£60

Nikolay Myaskovsky (1881-1950) is a composer whose music, until very recently, counted among the lost. As Patrick Zuk remarks at the outset of this compelling biography, he was nevertheless regarded as the foremost Russian symphonist of his generation by the end of the 1920s, and during his lifetime his works attracted the attention of many conductors both inside and beyond Russia, including Wilhelm Furtwängler, Leopold Stokowski and Yevgeny Svetlanov, who went on to record all 27 of Myaskovsky’s symphonies in a series reissued in the Warner Classics Svetlanov Edition in 2008.

Now comes this monumental study of the composer’s life and work, which for the first time (in English or Russian) affords Myaskovsky his critical due. This formidably detailed portrait of an introverted and reclusive artist draws on a wealth of archival materials in Moscow, St

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The music of Nikolai Miaskovski

by renowned Miaskovski expert, Eric Schissel.

Nikolai Yakovlevich Miaskovski (1881-1950) wrote 27 symphonies, 13 quartets, 9 piano sonatas, 2 sonatas for violoncello and piano, 2 concerti, and a good deal of "miscellaneous" piano music , 2 cantatas, and songs as well as some titled works for orchestra (Lyric Fragment, Alastor...). For a long time he was regarded as among the three most important composers in the Soviet Union, the other two being his friend Sergei Prokofiev, and Dmitri Shostakovich. His teachers included Reinhold Gliere, and of his students perhaps the three most famous are Dmitri Kabalevsky, Aram Khatchaturian, and Rodion Shchedrin. His own music is undergoing a slow revival, as illustrated perhaps by the fact that, of composers who have written more than 10 symphonies, he is among the relative few who can boast that only six cannot now be had in some kind of recording. (Of course, the others include Mozart, Haydn, Shostakovich, and Langgaard, and there are others still, but not many.)
(You can View a complete list of Miaskov

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Nikolai Yakovlevich Myaskovsky (born April 20, 1881 – died August 8, 1950)

Nikolai Yakovlevich Myaskovsky (born April 20 [April 8, O.S.], 1881 – died August 8, 1950), was a Russian composer, music critic, teacher, public figure, one of the founders of the Association for Contemporary Music (ACM) in Moscow. He was a prolific writer of symphonies, eventually Myaskovsky composed 27 symphonies (plus three sinfoniettas, three concertos and works in other orchestral genres), a number of works for chamber ensembles, 13 string quartets, 9 piano sonatas as well as many miniatures and vocal works. Aram Khachaturian and Dmitry Kabalevsky were among his notable students. His generosity as a teacher earned for him the nickname "the musical conscience of Moscow."

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BIOGRAPHY

Family

Nikolai Myaskovsky as a young man

Nikolai Myaskovsky was born in Novogeorgievsk (present-day Modlin), a Russian army fortress situated near Warsaw, Poland, which was then a part of the Russian Empire. Nikolai was the second child of a military engineer, Yakov Konstantinovich and