| 1881 | Born 8/20 April in Novogeorgiyevsk |
| 1889 | Family moves to Kazan; aunt Yelikonida gives him piano lessons |
| 1893 | Enrols in Nizhny-Novgorod Cadet Corps |
| 1895-9 | Student at St Petersburg Cadet College |
| 1899-1902 | Attends St Petersburg Military Engineering School |
| 1901 | Prelude in C sharp minor for piano |
| 1903 | Studies with Glier in Moscow |
| Fantasy in F minor for piano | 2 Romances for voice and piano |
| 1903-6 | From Youth, Opus 2, 12 romances for voice and piano |
| 1903-7 | Serves as military officer in St Petersburg |
| 1904 | Idyll for piano |
| 2 Fantasies for piano | |
| Silence for voice and piano | |
| 1904-8 | On the Threshold, Opus 4, 18 romances for voice and piano |
| 1905 | Piano Sonata [unpublished] |
| Scherzando for piano | |
| 2 Romances for voice and piano | |
| 1905-8 | Songs on Poems by Zinaida Gippius , Opus 5, for voice and piano |
| 1906-11 | Studies at the St Petersburg Conservatory under Rimsky-Korsakov and Liadov; befriends Prokofiev |
| 1907 | Meditations, Opus 1, 7 poems for voice and piano |
| begins Fifth Piano Sonata (1944) | |
| 1907-9 | First Piano Sonata in D minor, Opus 6 |
| 1908 | First Symphony in C minor, Opus 3 (rev. 1921) |
| 3 Sketches, Opus 8, for voice and piano | |
| Zvenya, suite (rev. 1945) | |
| Begins Sixth String Quartet (1944) | |
| 1908-9 | Madrigal, Opus 7, suite for voice and piano |
| 1909 | Overture for orchestra (rev. 1949) |
| Begins Fourth String Quartet (1937) | |
| 1909-10 | Silence, Opus 9, symphonic poem |
| 1910 | Begins Third String Quartet (1930) |
| Begins Tenth String Quartet (1945) | |
| 1910-11 | Sinfonietta, Opus 10, for small orchestra |
| Second Symphony in C sharp minor, Opus 11 | |
| 1911 | Graduates from St Petersburg Conservatory |
| First Cello Sonata in D major, Opus 12 (rev. 1930) | |
| 1912 | Second Piano Sonata in F sharp minor, Opus 13 |
| 1912-13 | Alastor, Opus 14, symphonic poem |
| 1913-14 | Premonitions, Opus 16, 6 sketches for voice and piano |
| 1914 | Third Symphony in A minor, Opus 15 |
| Recalled to military service | |
| 1917 | Transferred to Revel, suffering from shell-shock |
| 19 Pieces, Opus 16a, for piano | |
| 1917-19 | Following the October Revolution, he is assigned to the Naval General Staff |
| 1917-18 | Fourth Symphony in E minor, Opus 17 |
| 1917-22 | Whimsies, Opus 25, 6 sketches for piano |
| 1918 | Fifth Symphony in D major, Opus 18 |
| 1920 | Third Piano Sonata in C minor, Opus 19 |
| 1921 | Demobilised; becomes Professor of Composition at Moscow Conservatory |
| 6 Blok Poems, Opus 20, for voice and piano | |
| 1921-3 | Sixth Symphony in E flat minor, Opus 23, for orchestra and chorus ad libitum |
| 1922 | At Close of Day, Opus 21, 3 sketches for voice and piano |
| Seventh Symphony in B minor, Opus 24 | |
| 1924-5 | Eighth Symphony in A major, Opus 26 |
| Fourth Piano Sonata in C minor, Opus 27 | |
| 1925 | 8 Delvig Songs, Opus 22, for voice and piano |
| 1926-7 | Ninth Symphony in E minor, Opus 28 |
| Tenth Symphony in F minor, Opus 30 | |
| 1927 | Reminiscences, Opus 29, six pieces for piano |
| 1928 | Yellowed Leaves, Opus 31, seven pieces for piano |
| 1928-32 | Period of Soviet Cultural Revolution; Leftist groups ascendant; symphonic music of Myaskovsky, Shebalin, Shcherbachov frowned upon |
| 1929 | Serenade in E flat minor, Opus 32/1, for small orchestra |
| First Sinfonietta in B minor, Opus 32/2, for string orchestra | |
| 1929 | Lyric Concertino in G major, Opus 32/3, for flute, clarinet, horn, bassoon, harp and string orchestra |
| 1930 | First String Quartet in A minor, Opus 33/1 |
| Second String Quartet in C minor, Opus 33/2 | |
| Third String Quartet in D minor, Opus 33/3 | |
| 1930 | 2 Marches, Opus 31b, for wind orchestra |
| 1931 | 3 Marching Songs, Opus 31c, for chorus and piano |
| 1931-2 | Eleventh Symphony in B flat minor, Opus 34 |
| Twelfth Symphony in G minor, Opus 35, "Collective Farm" | |
| 1932 | Song on Lenin for chorus and piano |
| Song on Karl Marx for chorus and piano | |
| 1933 | Thirteenth Symphony in B flat minor, Opus 36 |
| Fourteenth Symphony in C major, Opus 37 | |
| 1933-4 | Fifteenth Symphony in D minor, Opus 38 |
| 1934 | Komsomol-Songs for chorus and piano |
| Sixteenth Symphony in F major, Opus 39, "Aviation" | |
| Honour the Soviet Pilots for chorus acapella | |
| 1935-39 | Stalin's Great Terror; many Soviet artists repressed |
| 1935-6 | 12 Lermontov Songs, Opus 40, for voice and piano |
| 1936 | Life Has Become More Joyful, Opus 40c, song for voice and piano |
| Through Many Years, Opus 87, for voice and piano (begun 1910) | |
| 1936-7 | Seventeenth Symphony in G sharp minor, Opus 41 |
| 1937 | Eighteenth Symphony in C major, Opus 42 |
| rev. Fourth String Quartet in F minor, Opus 33/4 (begun 1909) | |
| 1938 | Children's Pieces, Opus 43, for piano (begun 1907) |
| Violin Concerto in D minor, Opus 44 | |
| 1938-9 | Fifth String Quartet in E minor, Opus 47 |
| 3 Sketches, Opus 45, for voice and piano | |
| 1939 | Nineteenth Symphony in E flat major, Opus 46, for wind orchestra |
| 2 Pieces, Opus 46a, for string orchestra | |
| Salutation Overture in D major, Opus 48 | |
| 1939-40 | Sixth String Quartet in G minor, Opus 49 |
| 1940 | Twentieth Symphony in E flat major, Opus 50 |
| Twenty-first Symphony in F sharp minor, Opus 51, "Symphony-Fantasy" | |
| 1941 | Evacuated to Tbilisi |
| 2 Marches, Opus 53, for wind band | |
| Stchipachov Lyrics, Opus 52, 10 romances for voice and piano | |
| Twenty-second Symphony in B minor, Opus 54, "Symphony-Ballade" | |
| Seventh String Quartet in F major, Opus 55 | |
| Twenty-third Symphony in A minor, Opus 56 | |
| 1942 | Sonatina in E minor, Opus 57, for piano |
| Song and Rhapsody in B flat major, Opus 58, for piano | |
| Eighth String Quartet in F sharp minor, Opus 59 | |
| Dramatic Overture in G minor, Opus 60, for wind band | |
| 1942-3 | Kirov Is With Us!, Opus 61, cantata for mezzo-soprano, baritone, chorus and orchestra |
| 1943 | Returns to Moscow |
| Ninth String Quartet in D minor, Opus 62 | |
| Twenty-fourth Symphony in F minor, Opus 63 | |
| rev. Sinfonietta (1910) | |
| 1944 | Fifth Piano Sonata in B major, Opus 64/1 (begun 1907) |
| Sixth Piano Sonata in A flat major, Opus 64/2 (begun 1908) | |
| 1945 | Zvenya, Opus 65, 6 sketches for symphony orchestra (from 1908) |
| Cello Concerto in C minor, Opus 66 (begun 1944) | |
| Tenth String Quartet in F major, Opus 67/1 (begun 1907) | |
| Eleventh String Quartet in E flat major, Opus 67/2 | |
| 1945-6 | Second Sinfonietta in A minor, Opus 68 |
| 1946 | Twenty-fifth Symphony in D flat major, Opus 69 |
| Slavonic Rhapsody in D minor, Opus 71, for symphony orchestra | |
| Lyric Book, Opus 72, 6 romances for soprano and piano | |
| Compositions, Opus 73, 9 pieces for piano | |
| 1946/1947 | Violin Sonata in F major, Opus 70 |
| 1946-8 | Polyphonic Sketches, Opus 78, for piano |
| 1947 | From the Past, Opus 74, 6 improvisations for piano |
| The Kremlin By Night, Opus 75, cantata for tenor or soprano, chorus and orchestra | |
| Pathetic Overture, Opus 76 | |
| Twelfth String Quartet in G major, Opus 77 | |
| 1948 | Myaskovsky is one of half a dozen leading Soviet composers condemned for "formalism" |
| Twenty-sixth Symphony in C major, Opus 79, "On Russian Themes" | |
| Divertimento in E flat major, Opus 80, for symphony orchestra | |
| 1948-9 | Second Cello Sonata in A minor, Opus 81 (also in version for viola) |
| 1949 | Seventh Piano Sonata in C major, Opus 82 |
| Eighth Piano Sonata in D minor, Opus 83 | |
| Ninth Piano Sonata in F major, Opus 84 | |
| Twenty-seventh Symphony in C minor, Opus 85 | |
| Thirteenth String Quartet in A minor, Opus 86 | |
| 1950 | From Many Years, Opus 87, 15 songs (revisions 1901-36) |
| Dies 8 August in Moscow |