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Work Year 1 Piano Sonata No. 1 in F minor 1909 2 Four Etudes for Piano 1909 3 Four Pieces for Piano 1907-1911 4 Four Pieces for Piano 1908–12 5 Sinfonietta in A major (original version) 1909, rev. 1914–15 6 Dreams, for orchestra 1910 7 Two Poems, for female choir and orchestra 1909–10 8 Autumnal, for orchestra 1910, rev. 1915, 1934 9
Prokofiev's inexperience with ballet led him to revise the work extensively in the 1920s, following Diaghilev's detailed critique, [n 5] prior to its first production. [ 54 ] The ballet's premiere in Paris on 17 May 1921 was a huge success and was greeted with great admiration by an audience that included Jean Cocteau , Igor Stravinsky and ...
The Story of a Real Man (Russian: Повесть о настоящем человеке, romanized: Povest' o nastoyashchem cheloveke) is an opera in four acts by the Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev, his opus 117. [1] It was written from 1947 to 1948, [2] and was his last opera.
Sergei Prokofiev: The Scythian Suite, Op. 20 is an orchestral suite by Sergei Prokofiev written in 1915. Background ... Lolli, the hero, comes to save Ala; the Sun ...
Prokofiev had first expressed interest in composing a vocal-symphonic work on the topic of world peace while composing Winter Bonfire and the Cello Sonata earlier in 1949. [12] He first discussed and developed the idea with Alexander Gayamov, a Russian-Armenian writer.
The score was Prokofiev's third for a film, following Lieutenant Kijé (1934) and The Queen of Spades (1936). [1] Prokofiev was heavily involved not just with the composition, but with the recording as well. He experimented with different microphone distances in order to achieve the desired sound.
War and Peace (Op. 91) (Russian: Война и мир, Voyna i mir) is a 1946 230-minute opera in 13 scenes, plus an overture and an epigraph, by Sergei Prokofiev.Based on the 1869 novel War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, its Russian libretto was prepared by the composer and Mira Mendelson.
The film Ivan the Terrible (Part One) premiered on 30 December 1944. The sequel, The Boyar Conspiracy (Part Two), was not shown until 1958. The concert premiere of the soundtrack film score, as restored by Frank Strobel, took place on 16 September 2016 at the Musikfest Berlin, accompanied by a showing of the film in the Great Hall of the Konzerthaus Berlin.