Musicology Annotation << Back The Concept of Symphonism in the Works of Boris Asafiev and Iosif Rїzhkin Konson G.R. The author of the article makes the comparative ana­lysis of two prominent Russian scientists’ researches of concept of symphonism: Boris Asafiev and Iosif Rїzhkin. Author of this work considers B.V. Asaf’yev’s making of studies about symphonism, being durable basis for creation of methodology of integral analysis, one of the founders of which was I.J. Rizhkin. Key words: Asafiev, Rїzhkin, symphonism, integral analysis, dialectic. E-mail: gkonson@yandex.ru