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It was preceded, however, by the UK premieres of unknown quantities by Shchedrin, Miaskovsky and Denisov.

Also basking in official favor were long-nosed Dmitri Kabalevsky, Caucasus-born Lev Knipper, and aging, conservative Nicolas Miaskovsky, who was composing symphonies long before the Old Bolsheviks were dry behind the ears.

In three years he learned to scrub passably on the cello, studied composition at the Moscow Conservatory with Miaskovsky, who had been a pupil of Rimsky-Korsakov.

His pretty wife, Nina V. Makarova, who was a student of Miaskovsky's too, has written A Cantata for Molotov.

Most prolific living writer of symphonies is Russia's Nicolai Yokovlevich Miaskovsky, who at 61 has already written 23 and is still going strong.