Nikolai Myaskovsky composed his Symphony No.
The symphony is in one movement in three sections: The first section begins with a slow introduction which acts as a section-connecting and recurring motive, in B minor but with a tendency to slip to a G major chord.
When this introductory material is last heard, near the end of the symphony, the top G rises to a G♯ several times.
The symphony was premiered in Tbilisi under Abram Stasevich on 12 January 1942.
[3] It was possibly among the first symphonic responses to The Great Patriotic War (World War II), predating Dmitri Shostakovich's Leningrad Symphony.