First Symphony for Symphony Orchestra, Op. 12, Score

Iosif Andriasov wrote his First Symphony F-sharp minor, Opus 12, in 1960. The work is dedicated to Evgeny Kirillovich Golubev, his Moscow Conservatory Composition Professor. It was first performed on June 16, 1962 by the Moscow Regional Symphony Orchestra, with Leopold Gershkovich conducting, at the Bolshoi Hall of the Moscow Conservatory. In the same year, the First Symphony received a prize at the USSR Review of Young Composers. The score was published by Muzika” international publishing house, Moscow, in 1965, upon recommendation by Dmitry Dmitrievich Shostakovich. The Symphony was extensively performed by orchestras in the USSR, Europe, and the USA. It was first recorded for the USSR All-State Radio Fund by the Big Symphony Orchestra of the USSR All-State Radio and Television under Maestro Gennady Cherkasov. Iosif Andriasov made several revisions of the First Symphony, the final revision in 2000. The premiere of the final revision of the First Symphony took place on October 24th, 2001, with the Ohan Durian” Symphony Orchestra of the Armenian National Radio under Maestro Karen Durgaryan at the Aram Khachaturian Concert Hall in Yerevan, Armenia. The First Symphony is a lyrical-dramatic composition. It concerns with a philosophical triad: Life - Death - Immortality. The Symphony tells a story” about a life of a hero, an Eroica-style doer of deeds, who engages in a struggle with evil. It brings his life to a tragic culmination - his death. After this, music proceeds to a triumphant coda, which embodies the idea of immortality of the Hero’s Spirit and his Deeds. At the same time, there is not a thorough triumph in the end of the Symphony. The last chord of the composition is a neutral one: there is no major, no minor third in it. This conception with an open end” gives a symphony a contemporary reading of the heroic style.Andraiasov, Iosif is the author of 'First Symphony for Symphony Orchestra, Op. 12, Score', published 2002 under ISBN 9781931815000 and ISBN 1931815003.