Editing Maxim Berezovsky (section)

====Symphony in C major====
[[File:Berezovsky, first pages of Symphony "XXX".jpg|thumb|upright=0.75|The first two pages of Berezovsky's symphony in [[C major]]]]

The article "Symphony: 18th century" of the 1980 edition of the ''[[New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians]]'' noted that "many Italian overtures have found their way into Russian libraries; and Berezovsky's Russian symphony/overture has been preserved in the Doria Pamphilj collection in Rome."{{sfn|Karabits|2021|p=20}} It is the earliest symphony known to be written by a Russian composer.<ref>{{cite journal|title=Русско-итальянские стилевые диалоги в симфонии С-dur Максима Березовского |trans-title=Russo-Italian stylistic dialogues in Maxim Berezovsky's Symphony in C Major |last=Alyoshina |first=Margarita Nikolayevna |date=2015 |journal= Вестник Кемеровского государственного университета культуры и искусств |trans-journal=Journal of Culture and Arts of Kemerovo State University |url=https://cyberleninka.ru/article/n/russko-italyanskie-stilevye-dialogi-v-simfonii-s-dur-maksima-berezovskogo |access-date=2 August 2024}}</ref>

In 1996, an article in ''{{Ill|lt=Muzyka|Muzyka (magazine)|uk|Музика (журнал)}}'' was the first to report the existence of a symphony by Berezovsky.<!-- (Ivchenko, Larysa. The mystery of Signor Bereseiollo's symphony [Tayemnytsya symfonii seniora Bereseiollo] // Music [Muzyka.] 1996. № 1. pp. 6–8. 3, 15) -->{{sfn|Karabits|2021|p=16}} The work, in C major, and named on the first page as {{lang|it|Symphonia XXX}}, was discovered by the American conductor [[Steven Fox]] in 2002. Fox found a manuscript of the score in the music collection of an Italian aristocratic family, and was given permission for the work to be performed.{{sfn|Rakochi|2018}} The manuscript of the work is held in the {{lang|it|Archivio Doria Pamphilj}}, in Rome.{{sfn|Karabits|2021|p=20}} It is hand-bound within the penultimate volume—"XXX"—along with five symphonies by other composers. Berezovsky's symphony was written out in parts, as most symphonies in the 18th century were published, but rather in the form of a full score.{{sfn|Karabits|2021|pp=21{{ndash}}22}}

Shumilina has suggested the possibility that the symphony was an [[overture]] to Berezovsky's opera and not a separate orchestral work.{{sfn|Shumilina|2020}} It was first performed by the early music orchestra Pratum Integrum in 2003, at the [[Royal Academy of Music]] in London. It was first played in Ukraine in 2016.{{sfn|Rakochi |2018}}{{sfn|Karabits|2021|p=20}}