nikolai miaskovsky

Nikolai Miaskovsky or Nikolai Myaskovsky (April 20, 1881 – August 8, 1950) was a Russian composer. He is sometimes referred to as the "father of the Soviet symphony". Born in Novogeorgiyevsk, near Warsaw, at that time part of Russian Poland. At the St. Petersburg Conservatory he met Sergei Prokofiev, and they remained friends throughout the older man's life. The years 1921 – 1933 were years in which he most often experimented in music, producing works such as the Tenth and Thirteenth symphonies