Musicology Annotation << Back 100 Years of the Great Work Devutsky Vladislav Exactly 100 years have passed since the creation of the Sixth Symphony by Nikolai Myaskovsky – one of the seven most important universal mysteries that were created by great composers over the past 300 years. The symphony tells about the tragic fate and tragic destiny of a person who keenly perceives the world during the collapse of history (revolutions, coups, civil wars). A system of musical and semantic components (quotations, symbols, intonation-thematic signs and allusions) is traced, with the help of which a grandiose musical and historical fresco is created. It is shown that the four-part symphonic cycle, which looks outwardly traditional in Myaskovsky's plan, has been transformed into a multisegment plot form developing according to the laws of a theatrical work. Keywords: Myaskovsky's Sixth Symphony, universal mystery. DOI: 10.25791/musicology.11.2023.1345 Pp. 3-10.