About Николай Яковлевич Мясковский

Nikolai Yakovlevich Myaskovsky (Russian: Никола́й Я́ковлевич Мяско́вский (20 April 1881 – 8 August 1950) was a Russian composer. He is sometimes referred to as the "father of the Soviet symphony". Myaskovsky was long recognized as an individualist even by the Soviet establishment. In the 1920s the critic Boris Asafyev commented that he was 'not the kind of composer the Revolution would like; he reflects life not through the feelings and spirit of the masses, but through the prism of his personal feelings.