1933, April 7 – Iosif Arshakovich Andriasov was born in Moscow, USSR, to an Armenian family. His father, Arshak Osipovich Andriasov (1893-1948), was an economist. His mother, Maria Fyodorovna Bedjanova-Andriasova (1898-1974), was an artist.

1936 – I. Andriasov begins to play the piano and compose. One of the first melodies he played was an Armenian folk song “Groong”. Musical gift from his grandmother, Rosa Parsadanova, and his father (both had perfect pitch).

1941 – Germany invades the Soviet Union on June 22.  Iosif’s father goes to the front as a volunteer; his family is evacuated to Novosibirsk (Siberia). Iosif plays violin for wounded Soviet soldiers in hospitals.

1943 – The Andriasov family returns to Moscow. Iosif continues to study violin at the Music School and plays in the State Children Orchestra.

1948 – Arshak Osipovich Andriasov dies. Difficult time for the family. Iosif drops the music school; enrolls at the Central Sport School as a soccer player and boxer; organizes a jazz orchestra, plays accordion.

1952 – private composition lessons with Grant Aramovich Grigorian (a pupil of Evgeny Kirillovich Golubev at Moscow Conservatory).

1953-1957 – Iosif Andriasov studies composition with Grigory Samuilovich Frid at the Music College under the Moscow Conservatory. He composes String Quartet, Piano Trio, pieces for various instruments, and romances. Many of these compositions passed the limit of casual student’s works and had strong artistic values. Some of them are published by “Muzika” and “Soviyetsky Kompozitor” Publishing Houses in Moscow; and his “Quartet” is recorded and transmitted abroad by the Soviet radio station.

1958 – I. Andriasov enters the Moscow Conservatory. Studies composition with Professor Evgeny Golubev, orchestration with Professor Dmitry Rogal-Levitsky, analysis with Professor Sergei Skrebkov, and piano with Professor Victor Rozanov.

1960 – Iosif Arshakovich Andriasov completes his First Symphony, later revising his score several times (the final revision in 2000) and composes the Concerto for Trumpet and Symphony Orchestra (final revision of 1995).

Iosif Andriasov taught Victor Bunin, a pianist, to play the piano in a new style – with the “spiritual virtues”. As a result, Victor Bunin became a winner at the All-Russian Piano Competition in Moscow, USSR, in 1960.

1962, June 16 – Premiere of his First Symphony. Establishes Iosif Andriasov as a significant new voice in contemporary classical music.

1963, April 7 – Iosif Andriasov marries Marina (Marta) Leonidovna Kudryashova, a fellow student at the Conservatory. They lived together during all life; have two children: Maria, daughter (1965) and Arshak, son (1980).

1964 – I. A. Andriasov enters the Soviet Composers’ Union unanimously, with one to abstain from voting.

I. Andriasov studies the electronic music at the ANS (Museum of Alexandr Nikolayevich Skryabin) and the conducting (courses at the Soviet Composers’ Union).

1965 – The score of the First Symphony, published by the "Muzika" International Publishing House, Moscow, becomes the first Mr. Andriasov’s published composition.

1965-1970 – Iosif Andriasov masters new stylistic trends of the Western-European music of avant-garde (serial compositions: Labyrinth, Op. 15, 1965; Phoenix, Op. 16, 1966, and Concerto for Orchestra - Variations in Six Movements, Op. 18, 1968); synthesizes tonality, modality, aleatory and other expressive means in one composition (musical sketches for various instruments - 1969), and writes tonal compositions (Passacaglia for Trombone and Piano, 1969, and cantata To the Mother-Earth for Baritone Solo, Four Trombones, Two (or more) Harps, and Mixed Choir, poetry by Vladimir Lazarev,1970).

1967 – Journal “Moskva” publishes, for the first time, the novel “The Master and Margarita” by Mikhail Afanas’evich Bulgakov (written in the late 1930s); it deals with an actual subject of correlation of humanity and power in the Soviet society.

1973, April 15 – premier of his Second Symphony by the USSR Radio Symphony Orchestra under Maestro Gennady Cherkasov at the Festival-Plenum of the Union of Soviet Composers (Moscow).

1973 – I. Andriasov writes his Book of Aphorisms To My Friends. Travels to Yerevan, Armenia, by an invitation of the Armenian Composers’ Union (Eduard Mirzoyan, Robert Atayan). The Head of Armenian-Gregorian Church, Vazgen the First, Catolikos of All Armenians, awards Iosif Andriasov the Special Charter with Recognition and Blessing for his contribution to music and ethics.

1974 – Iosif Andriasov wins the Soviet Composers' Competition in Budapest, Hungary. His Second Symphony represents Soviet music at the USSR National Celebration Concert on October 22, 1974, at the Special Gala Concert, which was broadcast for the member countries of the Eastern, Central Europe and Finland.

1974 – Editor-in-Chief of Repertoire-Editorial Board of the Ministry of Culture of the USSR Konstantin Konstantinovich Sakva, offers Mr. Andriasov the position of the Head of the Special Committee on Music and Moral matters to the USSR General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev. Iosif Andriasov declines the position. Then, another senior official, the Editor-in-Chief of the Music Department at the USSR All-State Radio and Television, Gennady Konstantinovich Cherkasov, asks Mr. Andriasov if he would agree to accept the Lenin Prize from the USSR Government. Mr. Andriasov rejects this offer as well, stating: "By accepting a reward from criminals, one becomes an accomplice to the criminals".

1974  – I. A. Andriasov’s Concertino for Clarinet and Symphony Orchestra is premiered by the USSR All-State Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra under Maestro Gennady Cherkasov, with soloist Rafael Bagdasarian at the USSR All-State Radio Concert Hall.

1975 – Iosif Andriasov makes a revision of his book To My Friends and composes his Concerto for French Horn and Symphony Orchestra.

1976 – Iosif Arshakovich Andriasov writes The Science on Morality. One part of The Science on Morality is a Periodic System of Spiritual Virtues, that is analogous to D. Mendeleyev Periodic Table.

1978 – Compositions of Iosif Andriasov are introduced at the Juilliard School (Ivan Galamian, Gerard Schwartz, Vincent Persicetti, and David Diamond).

Spring of 1979 – Before leaving the USSR, Iosif Andriasov had to give all of his musical diaries and sketchbooks to the Soviet Composers’ Union authorities to receive their permission for taking his music with him. Some pages from his diaries were extracted and replaced with blank paper.
Mr. Andriasov was not allowed to take the original documents and his philosophical works with him. He made negatives of his book "To my Friends" and hid it in a secret place of his luggage. He told about this only to his wife, Marta Andriasova. Because of these precautions, Mr. Andriasov was able to bring these materials to the West.

1979, April  – a U.S. State Department officer in Moscow takes Mr. Andriasov’s Conservatory Diploma, signed by D. Shostakovich, the Special Charter with Recognition and Blessing, signed by Vazgen the First, together with other unique documents belonging to him and his family, to transfer to the U.S.

1979, May 6 – Iosif Andriasov immigrates to the U.S. with his wife and daughter; invited by Senators Jacob Javits, Patrick Moynihan, and Edward Kennedy.

1979, May 18th - the Andriasov family arrives in New York City.

May, 1979-1990's - Iosif Andriasov writes letters to the American Presidents Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George Bush Sr., and many other U.S. officials with a request to return to him his and his family's documents, but the documents were never returned.

1979, July - American premiere of Iosif Andriasov's String Quartet, at the Manhattan jail, New York City.

1979, July - American premiere of I. Andriasov's Piano Trio and Concertino for Clarinet and Piano at the Newport Music Festival (Newport, Rhode Island, USA). Senator Jacob Javits sends a greeting telegram to Iosif Andriasov.

1979, Autumn - Iosif Andriasov travels to Vienna, Austria, with his pupil Dmitry Sitkovetsky, a violinist whom Mr. Andriasov taught from 1972 until 1980 to play violin in a new style – with the “spiritual virtues”. As a result, Mr. Sitkovetsky won the Fritz Kreisler International Violin Competition.

1979-1987 – Iosif Andriasov taught Anatole Wieck, violinist and violist, to perform in a new style - with the “spiritual virtues”.

1980 – Iosif Andriasov receives a commission from RIAS, Berlin to write a composition for string orchestra. He composes his Symphonietta for String Orchestra.

1981, January – the Muncie Symphony Orchestra, R. Hargrieves, a conductor, performs Mr. Andriasov’s First Symphony (Muncie, Indiana, USA). This performance was dedicated to the release of American hostages from Iran.

1981 – Iosif Andriasov composes the “Meditation” for Choir a cappella, Op. 30 and “ve Maria” – duet for soprano and tenor with piano.
I. Andriasov travels to Germany for a recording of his First Symphony with the Bamberger Symphoniker for the Bavarian Radio.
Iosif Andriasov takes karate classes at the North American Japanese Karate Association Club, with instructor Mr. Mori.

1983 – Iosif Andriasov composes A Piece for String Orchestra, E-flat minor.

1985 – Iosif Andriasov prepared Victor Lubotsky (Romasevich), violinist and violist, whom he taught since summer 1979 to play in a new style – with the “spiritual virtues”, to win the Gina Bachauer Prize at the J.S. Bach International Competition in Washington, DC, US.

1986-1987 – “a group of criminals” attempts to kidnap Mr. Andriasov’s son, Arshak, in order to exchange him for Iosif Andriasov’s philosophical works. Official protest of the Soviet Government to the State Department of the USA was expressed.

1989 – Premiere of Mr. Andriasov’s “Meditation” for French Horn and String Orchestra in Denver, Colorado, US.
Iosif Andriasov composes A Piece for Symphony Orchestra, F minor.

December 1989 - August 1990 – Iosif Andriasov with his family lives in San Francisco, California.

August 1990 - November 1990 – Iosif Andriasov with his family goes to Italy (Milan), then travels in Western and Eastern European countries (Austria, Germany, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Hungary) and returns to New York City.

1992 – Iosif Andriasov compiles his piano pieces into a set Seven Pieces for Piano and selects his Four Romances for Various Voices and Piano.

1994 – a major Japanese broadcasting company, Asahi TV, produces a documentary film about Mr. Andriasov and his remarkable contribution to the world's culture.

1994 – Iosif Andriasov composes The Spring for String Quartet, B-flat minor, Op. 32.
Iosif Andriasov and Marta Andriasova enter the set of Seven Pieces for Piano into Finale music computer program.

1995, March – Iosif Andriasov suffers his first heart attack.

1995 – Mr. Andriasov makes a final revision of his Concertino for Trumpet and Symphony Orchestra.

1995, November – Iosif Andriasov gives the first lesson in composition to his son, Arshak Andriasov.
Vladimir Lazarev, Eduard Mirzoyan, Alexandr Tyapkin, Rudolf Manukov, Ararat Mkrtchyan, Giya Kancheli from the USSR visit Iosif in his New York City apartment.

1995 - 2000 – Iosif Andriasov and Marta Andriasova prepare many of Mr. Andriasov compositions for publication, having used Finale computer program.

Spring of 1998 – Administration of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Mr. Daniel Barenboim, Music Director, destroys the copies of five scores by Iosif Andriasov that were sent, on a request of Mr. Barenboim, to Shulamit Ran, Composer-in-Residence for a review.

November 14, 1998 – The Knox-Galesburg Symphony, Bruce Poley, a conductor, performed the Concertino for Clarinet and Symphony Orchestra by Iosif Andriasov in Galesburg, Illinois, USA.

1999 – Iosif Andriasov makes a final revision of his Concertino for Clarinet and Symphony Orchestra.

Summer 2000 – Iosif Andriasov with his family spends at the rented dacha (of Swedish Ambassador) in Hamptons, Long Island, New York State.

2000 – Iosif Andriasov makes final revisions of his First Symphony, Second Symphony, and Third Symphony. Mr. Andriasov continues working on his Fourth Symphony and Concerto for Oboe and Symphony Orchestra, - both unfinished.

1979 - 2000 – in the US, Iosif Andriasov continues to work on his philosophical ideas. Writes “Treatise on the Spiritual World”, the main thesis of which is: “Negation of slave-master morality and assertion of morality of the free individuals”.

November 16, 2000 – Iosif Arshakovich Andriasov dies from heart failure in the Lenox Hospital, New York City.