Sergei Prokofiev
Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev (Russian: &#;&#;&#;&#;&#;&#;&#; &#;&#;&#;&#;&#;&#;&#;&#;&#;&#; &#;&#;&#;&#;&#;&#;&#;&#;&#;&#;, tr.Sergej Sergeevi&#; Prokof'ev)[1][2] (27&#;April [O.S. 15 April] &#;– 5 March )[3] was a Russiancomposer, pianist[4][5] and conductor who mastered numerous musical genres and came to be admired as one of the greatest composers of the 20th century.
Biography
Childhood compositions
Prokofiev was born in Sontsovka (now Krasne in Donetsk oblast, Ukraine), an isolated rural estate in Yekaterinoslav Governorate, Russian Empire. He displayed unusual musical abilities by the age of five. His first piano composition to be written down (by his mother), an 'Indian Gallop', was in the Lydian mode (a major scale with a raised 4th scale degree) as the young Prokofiev felt 'reluctance to tackle the black notes'.[6] By the age of seven he had also learned to play chess.[7] Much like music, chess would remain a passion his entire life, and he became acquainted with world chess champions José Raúl Capablanca[8] and Mikhail Botvinnik.
At the age of nine he was composi
Sergei Prokofiev - Biography
Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev (&#;&#;&#;&#;&#;&#;&#; &#;&#;&#;&#;&#;&#;&#;&#;&#;&#; &#;&#;&#;&#;&#;&#;&#;&#;&#;&#;) (April 271, &#; March 5, ) was one of the Soviet Union's greatest composers.
Biography
Early years
Prokofiev was born in Sontsovka (now the village of Krasne in Donetsk oblast), Russian Empire (now Ukraine) as an only child. His mother was a pianist and his father a relatively wealthy agricultural engineer.
Prokofiev displayed unusual musical abilities at an early age and in , when he started taking private lessons in composition, he had already produced a number of pieces. As soon as he had the necessary theoretical tools he quickly started experimenting, laying the base for his own musical style.
After a while, Prokofiev felt that the isolation in Sontsovka was restricting his further musical development. Although his parents were not too keen on forcing their son into a musical career at such an early age, in he moved to St Petersburg and applied to the Academy of Music. He passed the introductory tests and started his composition studies the same year, being several years younger than most of his classmates. He was vie
Sergei Prokofiev
Sergey Prokofiev, (born April 23, , Sontsovka, Ukraine, Russian Empire—died March 5, , Moscow, Russia, U.S.S.R.), Russian composer and pianist. Son of a pianist, he began writing piano pieces at age five and wrote an opera at nine. He studied at the St. Petersburg Conservatory (–14) with Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov and others.
Prolific and arrogant, from he made a living by performing as a virtuoso. He played his own first concerto at his graduation recital. During World War I he wrote his Scythian Suite () and First (“Classical”) Symphony (). His opera The Love for Three Oranges premiered in in Chicago.
Paris was his base from , and during the s he produced three new symphonies and the operas The Fiery Angel () and The Gambler (). In the s he was drawn back to his homeland; there he wrote the score for the ballet Romeo and Juliet (), the symphonic children’s tale Peter and the Wolf (), and striking national music for Sergey Eisenstein’s film Alexander Nevsky (). World War II inspired the score to Eisenstein’s Ivan the Terrible (–45) and the opera War and Peace ().
The government’s denunciation of his work in was a harsh blow; his health failed, and he died o
Celebrating the th Anniversary of his Birth
Sergei Prokofiev ()
“There are still so many beautiful things to be said in C major”
Sergei Prokofiev’s death on March 5, , only hours before the passing of Josef Stalin, went almost unnoticed in the press. While millions of Soviet citizens paid their last respects to one of the most notorious mass murderers of all times, only ten individuals, including Kabalevsky, Shostakovich, and Khachaturian, were present at a memorial service on March 7. Although frequently at odds with Soviet leadership, Prokofiev’s career nevertheless mirrored the social and musical developments of his time. Establishing a clearly distinct profile of genuinely Russian music in the first half of the twentieth century, the popularity of his music covering the range of his entire career was rivaled by few composers of his generation.
Sergei Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 2, Op. 13
Prokofiev initially made his name as a composer-pianist, shocking audiences with a series of fiendishly difficult works for the instrument. The second piano concerto caused a veritable scandal in , with critics suggesting, “To hell with this futuristic music! The cats on the ro
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