Talk:Symphony No. 8 (Myaskovsky)

Sergey S. Popov is probably this musicologist (1887-1937). Schissel | Sound the Note! 22:59, 28 January 2010 (UTC)

Premiere
According to Wikipedia-de, world premiere May 23 1926. According to https://books.google.com/books?id=B4OwGYrpBBoC&pg=PA268 (Prokofiev selected letters, footnote), performed in Boston November 30 1928, so unlike symphony 5, gap between world and US premiere (symphony 5's US premiere was in 1926, world premiere had been in 1920) much briefer... Schissel | Sound the Note! 16:39, 13 April 2017 (UTC) (that said, Myaskovsky's 6th was premiered in 1924, and given its US premiere in or by November 1926 also.)