Nikolai Myaskovsky - Lyric Book for soprano and piano Op. 72 VIDEO REQUEST

The son of an army engineer who eventually attained the rank of general in the Russian army composer Nikolay Myaskovsky was expected to follow in his fathers footsteps.
However after his mothers death in 1890 Myaskovsky was brought up by his aunt a former singer who encouraged his musical interests his first compositions -- piano pieces much influenced by Chopin -- date from that time.
In 1903 Myaskovsky took a course in harmony from Reinhold Glière which helped him decide on a music career.
He continued his studies with Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov and Anatoly Liadov at the St.
Petersburg Conservatory 1906-1911 his Symphony No.
1 1908 won him a scholarship that allowed him to complete his education.
Myaskovsky then spent some time as a private teacher and music journalist.
During World War I he served on the front for three years then worked on military fortifications.
Some of those experiences are reflected in his Symphonies Nos.
4 and 5 both of which were partially sketched on the front.
In 1921 Myaskovsky became a professor of composition at the Moscow Conservatory a position he held until his death.
He also was appointed assistant director of the music department of the Peoples Commissariat 1921-1922 and editor at the Music Publishing House 1922-1931.
In later years he would become a consultant for music broadcasts for the All-Union Radio Committee and would hold an important position in the Union of Soviet Composers.
With his Symphony No.
6 1921-3 nationalistic themes entered his music the Symphonys fourth movement is an evocation of the Russian Revolution.
His Symphony No.
12 1931-1932 written in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the Revolution was his first explicitly Soviet work with its portrait of the past present and future of a Russian village.
In 1940 Myaskovsky received an honorary Doctor of Arts degree from the Moscow Conservatory.
His Symphony No.
21 of that year written for the 50th anniversary of the Chicago Symphony earned for the composer the first of his three Stalin Prizes and remains perhaps his best-known work.
During World War II he was relocated to the Caucasus later to Tbilisi and Kirghizia.
The hardships he experienced didnt prevent him from composing and he completed two symphonies a Cello Concerto and other works during those years.
Despite the prominent place he held in Russian musical society and the title of Peoples Artist he received in 1946 Myaskovsky was one of the composers -- along with Sergei Prokofiev Dmitri Shostakovich Aram Khachaturian and others -- denounced in 1948 by the Central Committee of the Communist Party for formalism modernism and ignoring the needs of the Soviet people and society.
He wasnt criticized as harshly as the others but the frequently pessimistic tone of his music was noted and he was accused through his teaching of injecting inharmonious music into the Soviet educational system.
Myaskovsky was quite ill by this time but was able to reply in part to the charges made against him with his Symphony No.
27 1949-1950 which was premiered four months after his death and won him his third posthumous Stalin Prize.
Myaskovsky wrote 27 symphonies 13 string quartets nine piano sonatas and a host of other works.
Among his many students at the Moscow Conservatory were Aram Khachaturian and Dmitri Kabalevsky his generosity as a teacher earned for him the nickname the musical conscience of Moscow.
On his death just eighteen months after his denunciation he was lauded by the Soviet Council of Ministers as an outstanding Soviet musical worker and peoples artist.
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Original audio: Tatiana Barsukova soprano Olga Solovieva piano Toccata Classics 2021 Original sheet music: imslp.orgwikiLyric_Book2C_Op.72_Myaskovsky2C_Nikolay Muzyka 1982

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