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Sergei Prokofiev's Piano Sonata No. 6 in A major, Op. 82 is a sonata for solo piano, the first of the "War Sonatas". It was composed in 1940 and first performed on 8 ...
The Symphony No. 6 in E-flat minor, Op. 111, by Sergei Prokofiev was completed and premiered in 1947. [1] Sketches for the symphony exist as early as from June 1945; Prokofiev had reportedly begun work on it prior to composing his Fifth Symphony. He later remarked that the Sixth memorialized the victims of the Great Patriotic War.
The Five Pieces further develop the notion of "total chromaticism" that Schoenberg introduced in his Three Piano Pieces, Op. 11 (composed earlier that year) and were composed during a time of intense personal and artistic crisis for the composer, this being reflected in the tensions and, at times, extreme violence of the score, mirroring the expressionist movement of the time, in particular ...
Op. Composed Premiered Symphony No. 4: 36 1877–1878 1878 (Moscow) Manfred Symphony: 58 1885 1886 (Moscow) Symphony No. 5: 64 1888 1888 (St Petersburg) Symphony in E-flat: 79 posth. 1892 (sketch, not publicly performed during the composer's lifetime) Symphony No. 6: 74 1893 1893 (St Petersburg)