¹ Composer's introduction to L'Arbre des Songes, CBS 42449.

² Tempo No. 158, September 1986, Pages 46/47.

³ Introduction to L'Arbre des Songes, op.cit.

* The literature on these works in non-existent in English, and scanty even in Russian; however Yclena Dolinskaya, who seems to be the current Miaskovsky authority in the USSR, has a useful chapter on the quartets in her Stil instrumentalnikh Sochinyenii N.Y. Miaskovskovo i sovremynnost (The style of Miaskovsky's instrumental works and the present day)(Moscow: 'Muzyka', 1984)Google Scholar.

† Dolinskaya, , op. cit., p. 164 Google Scholar (my translation).

^* See the published correspondence, S.S. Prokofiev i N.Y. Miaskovsky Pyerepiska (Moscow: Sovyctski Kompositor, 1977), especially pp.327–337 Google Scholar.

† Could he have known the Lyric Suite? (Berg is unmentioned in the reputedly heavily-edited letters to Prokofiev). Even sharper questions are raised by Quartet No.3 (essentially 20 years earlier than No.l). This is a two-movement work, its finale a Theme and Variations in straightforward Tchaikovsky-Arensky mould. But the first movement, a very large and ardent sonata-design, contains extraordinarily precise echoes of the first and the last movements of Schoenberg's op. 10. Coincidence perhaps, but the Schoenberg was published in the very year (1910) that Miaskovsky first conceived his work.