Russian orchestra exhumes a banished composer

Russian orchestra exhumes a banished composer

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norman lebrecht

March 03, 2021

The Sverdlovsk Philharmonic is putting on what may be the first festival of music by Nikolay Myaskovsky (1881-1950), a composer who won the Stalin Prize five times but spent his final years in internal exile.

His music never recovered from the ban.

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