nikolai miaskovsky

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Nikolai Miaskovsky or Nikolai Myaskovsky (April 20, 1881 – August 8, 1950) was a Russian composer. He is sometimes referred to as the "father of the Soviet symphony". Born in Novogeorgiyevsk, near Warsaw, at that time part of Russian Poland. At the St. Petersburg Conservatory he met Sergei Prokofiev, and they remained friends throughout the older man's life. The years 1921 – 1933 were years in which he most often experimented in music, producing works such as the Tenth and Thirteenth symphonies, Fourth piano sonata, and First string quartet — also some of the suites of piano pieces — whose harmony is very much stretched, and the first years of his teaching at the Conservatory. Perhaps the Thirteenth symphony stands alone even among them for experimentation, written in a single atmospheric and strange movement complete with fugato. His pupils were eventually to include such composers as Khachaturian, Rodion Shchedrin, Dmitri Kabalevsky, and Vissarion Shebalin. The Symphony No. 6 (1921–3, rev. 1947 — this is the version that is almost always played or recorded) his only choral symphony and the longest of his 27 symphonies, sets a brief poem. The finale contains quite a few quotes — the Dies Irae theme, as well as French revolutionary tunes. The next few years, after 1933, showed primarily a retreat from that style, though with — again mostly — no general retreat in craftsmanship. The sonata-works (symphonies, quartets, etc.) written in the last ten years (especially starting w

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