Symphony No. 1 (Lyatoshynsky)
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| Symphony | |
|---|---|
| No. 1 | |
| by Borys Lyatoshynsky | |
| Key | A major |
| Opus | 2 |
| Composed | 1918/19 |
| Movements | 3 |
| Premiere | |
| Date | 1919 |
| Location | Kyiv |
| Conductor | Reinhold Glière |
Symphony No. 1 in A major, Op. 2, is a symphony by Borys Lyatoshynsky, written during 1918 and 1919.[1]
It has been suggested by the music writer Gregor Tassie that his First Symphony (1918–1919),[2] is the earliest symphony to be composed in Ukraine after Maxim Berezovsky.[3] More tuneful and Scriabinesque in comparison with his four other symphonies,[4] it was written as his graduation composition at a time when he had become influenced by the music of Scrabin and Richard Wagner. It was conducted in 1919 by Lyatoshynsky's teacher, the composer Reinhold Glière.[5]
The symphony is described in the 1999 edition of The Penguin Guide to Compact Discs as "a well-crafted, confident score" that "abounds in contrapuntal elaboration and abundant orchestral rhetoric".[6] A similar vision of the war to Nikolai Myaskovsky's Symphony No. 5 was expressed in the symphony. The reflective second movement is redeemed by a finale that is, according to the music historian Ferrucio Tammaro, "not only dynamic, but even heroic, in close conformity with the tastes of emerging Soviet symphonism".[7]
