Nikolai myaskovsky biography of william

  • Nikolay Myaskovsky (1881-1950) is a composer whose music, until very recently, counted among the lost.
  • Nikolai Myaskovsky is most famous for his work in the field of 20th century classical music.
  • Russian composer Nikolai Yakovlevich Myaskovsky was born on this day in 1881.

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    The Russian composer no-one seems to know

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    norman lebrecht

    June 01, 2018

    From the Lebrecht Album of the Week:

    There is no clear western observation of Nikolai Myaskovsky. We think we know Prokofiev and Shostakovich, whether through their music or through their Stalin ordeals. But their senior contemporary barely flickers on our radar even though Stravinsky, among others, held him in high regard.

    In a fairly undramatic life, Miaskovsky simply got on with writing …

     

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      Laureate of the First International Competition for Pianists, Composers and Conductors named after S. Rachmaninov (2nd prize and Silver Medal; 2022).


      Laureate of the Boris Tchaikovsky International Prize (for outstanding interpretations of Russian chamber- orchestral music of the twentieth century; 2019).


      Grand Prix at the Khondzinsky's Magnum Opus International Festival of Contemporary Art (for the world premiere of M. Weinberg's Suite for Symphony Orchestra; 2021).


      “Disc of the Year” at Music Web International (for the first anthology of chamber orchestral scores by G. Galynin; 2020).


      “Disc of the Year” at Music Web International (for the first choral anthology by A.K. Lyadov; 2021).

      Laureate of the “Pure Sound” International Awards for the best audio recordings of works of Russian academic music (1st prize - for the anthology of chamber-orchestral scores by G. Galynin; 2nd prize - for the complete collection of choral works by A. Lyadov; 2021).

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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 po