19th Symphony (Myaskovsky)

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The 19th Symphony in E flat major op. 46 by the Russian composer Nikolai Mjaskowski (1881–1950) was composed in 1938/39 for the Red Army Music Corps and is the first symphony in Soviet Russia composed for a pure wind orchestra .

Origin and premiere

Nikolai Mjaskowski was invited to a troop concert in 1938, at which a transcription of his 18th symphony for wind orchestra was played. Very impressed by this, he made contact with the conductor and arranger, the military bandmaster Iwan Wassiliewitsch Petrow (1906–1975, later director of the Academy for Military Band Masters in Moscow) and almost immediately began to draft a new symphony for a pure wind orchestra. He consulted a relevant instrumentation theory and Petrov himself. It was completed in January 1939. On February 15, 1939, the 19th symphony was broadcast on the radio on the occasion of the 21st anniversary of the Red Army, played by a military orchestra under the direction of Petrov. It was performed on February 22nd in the Great Hall of the Moscow State Conservatory .

The symphony was printed in 1941 by the State Publishing House of the USSR. Two movements from it also exist in a version for string orchestra as op. 46 bis . Following Mjaskowski's pattern, other symphonies by Soviet musicians for wind orchestras were created, such as those by Boris Koschewnikow .

Cast, playing time and characterization

The score provides for a wind orchestra with the following scoring : flute , piccolo , 2 oboes , 3 clarinets in Bb, E-flat clarinet , 2 bassoons (ad libitum), 4 horns in E-flat, 2 trumpets , 3 trombones , 2 cornets in B- flat , 2 alto horns in Eb, 2 tenor horns in Bb, baritone in Bb, timpani (ad libitum) and percussion ( triangle , small military drum , cymbals , bass drum ).

The playing time of the 19th Symphony in E flat major op. 46 by Nikolai Myaskovsky is around 23 minutes.

The work has four movements with the following tempo headings:

  1. Maestoso. Allegro giocoso
  2. Moderato
  3. Andante serioso
  4. Poco maestoso. Vivo

Mjaskowski avoided in his musicians and listeners easily accessible, predominantly brightly tuned work, the 2nd movement of which is a waltz , largely martial-heroic poses. The musicologist Boris Schwarz judged: “ […] On the whole, he treats wind instruments idiomatically and with finesse. [...] "

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ score
  2. ^ Boris Schwarz: Music and musical life in the Soviet Union. 1917 to the present . Part I - III. Heinrichshofen, Wilhelmshaven, 1982. ISBN 3-7959-0377-7 , p. 276

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  • Soja Gulinskaja: Nikolai Jakowlewitsch Mjaskowski. Moscow 1981, German Berlin, Verl. Neue Musik 1985, pp. 180–182.
  • Work details at myaskovsky.ru