The monumental Second Symphony, which was created during the Great Patriotic War, is a bright example of a piece of music in the heroic and patriotic genre. Among the orchestral instruments there is a bell, due to which the symphony is mentioned in the musicological sources as the “Symphony with a bell”. Composed and performed in the midst of military actions in 1943, the symphony instilled confidence and hopes in peoples’ hearts. The score of the symphony was published in the first post-war year (1946) by the publishing house “Muzgiz
