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Alastor

Alastor , in Greek mythology, spirit of vengeance. It is an epithet applied to Zeus or any other god in his aspect as avenger and is also sometimes applied to an evildoer who is subject to vengeance.

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Alastor, a visionary poem by P. B. Shelley, published 1816. ‘Alastor’ is a transliteration from the Greek, meaning the ‘evil spirit or demon of solitude’, who pursues the Poet to his death because he will not be satisfied by domestic affections and ‘human sympathy’. Composed in Miltonic blank verse, the poem reflects Shelley's early wanderings.

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Myaskovsky, Nikolay (Yakovlevich)

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Myaskovsky, Nikolay (Yakovlevich) (b Novogeorgyevsk, 1881; d Moscow, 1950). Russ. composer. Prof. of comp. Moscow Cons., 1921–50, pupils incl. Kabalevsky, Khachaturian, and Shebalin. One of composers denounced by Soviet officials in 1948 for formalism. Wrote 27 syms., the first in 1908, the last being perf. posthumously. No.19 is for military band. Also comp. sym.-poems Nevermore (after Poe's The Raven) and Alastor (after Shelley); sinfonietta; vn. conc. (1938); vc. conc. (1944–5); 13 str. qts. (No.1 1929–30, No.13 1949); 9 pf. sonatas; and many songs.

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