Editing Nikolai Myaskovsky (section)

===Advocates===
One of Myaskovsky's strongest early advocates was the conductor [[Konstantin Saradzhev]].  He conducted the premieres of Myaskovsky's 8th,<ref>[http://home.wanadoo.nl/ovar/sovrev/miask/ocd738.htm Review of CD with compositions by Myaskovsky] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090213235735/http://home.wanadoo.nl/ovar/sovrev/miask/ocd738.htm |date=13 February 2009 }}</ref> 9th<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2002/nov02/Miaskovsky6-9.htm|website= Music Web International|title = Nikolai MIASKOVSKY (1881-1950): The Complete Symphonic Works: Volumes 6 - 9 on OLYMPIA |first = Rob |last=Barnett|date = November 2002}}</ref> and 11th<ref name="opus" /> symphonies and the [[symphonic poem]] ''Silence'', Op. 9 (which was dedicated to Saradzhev).<ref name="opus">[http://home.wanadoo.nl/ovar/miasopus.htm Compositions by Nikolai Myaskovsky] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071210025510/http://home.wanadoo.nl/ovar/miasopus.htm |date=10 December 2007 }}</ref>  The 10th Symphony was also dedicated to Saradzhev.<ref name="opus" />  In 1934 Myaskovsky wrote a ''Preludium and Fughetta on the name Saradzhev'' (for orchestra, Op. 31H; he also arranged it for piano 4-hands, Op. 31J).<ref name="opus" />

In the 1930s, Myaskovsky was also one of two Russian composers championed by [[Frederick Stock]], the conductor of the [[Chicago Symphony Orchestra]].  The other was [[Reinhold Glière]], whom he met in 1940 and commissioned to write his "Feast in Fergana", Op. 75, a large-scale orchestral fantasia.

Stock met Myaskovsky in March 1938 at the invitation of the Composers Union. He commissioned Myaskovsky's 21st Symphony (Symphony-Fantasy in F-sharp minor) for the Chicago Symphony's Fiftieth Anniversary. The first performance was in Moscow on 6 November 1940 (conducted by [[Aleksandr Gauk]]); Stock conducted the Chicago premiere on 26 December 1940.