N. Ya. Myaskovsky. 1938
Nikolay Yakovlevich Myaskovsky was a Russian composer, teacher, music critic, public figure, People’s Artist of the USSR (1946), Doctor of Arts and Professor.
In 1911 he graduated from the St. Petersburg Conservatory, where he studied composition and harmony with Anatoly Konstantinovich Lyadov, orchestration with Nikolay Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov, and musical form analysis with Jāzeps Vītols.
From 1921 he taught at the Moscow Conservatory. He was the founder of a significant school of composition. He had numerous composition students, including German Germanovich Galïnin, Evgeny Kirillovich Golubev, Dmitry Borisovich Kabalevsky, Alexander Vasil’evich Mosolov, Vano Il’ich Muradeli, Nikolay Ivanovich Peyko, Aram Il’ich Khachaturian, Karen Surenovich Khachaturian, Boris Aleksandrovich Tchaikovsky, Vissarion Yakovlevich Shebalin and Andrey Yakovlevich Eshpai.
Myaskovsky is an outstanding symphonist. His compositions include 27 symphonies, orchestral works in other genres (over 10, including the symphonic poem “Alastor,” 1913 and a number of Sinfoniettas), concertos for violin with orchestra (1938) and for cello and orchestra (1945), works for chamber ensemble, cantatas, 9 sonatas for piano, 2 sonatas for cello and piano, vocal works, songs.
