List of compositions by Nikolai Myaskovsky

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Nikolai Myaskovsky in 1912.

This is a list of compositions by Nikolai Myaskovsky by category.

Contents

Symphonies

Other orchestral works

Choral music

Chamber music

Piano music

Before his official Piano Sonata No. 1, Myaskovsky composed four or five unpublished piano sonatas. One of these was orchestrated as the Overture for small orchestra, and two more were revised in 1944 to become the official Sonatas Nos. 5 and 6. From about 1907 to 1919, Myaskovsky wrote dozens of short piano pieces as studies or exploratory drafts: he provisionally collected these in eight (unpublished) albums and referred to them collectively as Flofion or by the diminutive Flofionchiki, an apparently made-up word meaning something like 'Frolics' or 'Whimsies'. [2] Several of these were re-worked into the published piano collections Opp. 25, 29, 31, 78 and the orchestral suite Op. 65, while others provided movements – e.g. the slow movement of Piano Sonata No. 4 [3] – or thematic material for later chamber and orchestral works.

Songs

Notes

  1. In full 'Diversions, or three Collections of Games and Songs for Orchestra' according to Manashir Yakubov, liner notes to Claves CD 50-9415.
  2. S. S. Prokofiev i N. Ya. Myaskovsky Perepiska (Moscow: Sovyetski Kompozitor, 1977), p. 483.
  3. Murray McLachlan, liner notes to Olympia OCD 217.
  4. 1 2 Nice, David (2003). Prokofiev: From Russia to the West, 1891–1935 at Google Books, page 48 contains some information about the D minor and B major sonatas, originally Myaskovsky's 3rd and 4th from his conservatory years, and Prokofiev's critiques at his friend's behest. Mention is also made on page 47 of Flofionchiki.

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