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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
Compositions by Sergei Prokofiev published posthumously (7 P) Concertos by Sergei Prokofiev (1 C, 5 P) F. Films scored by Sergei Prokofiev (8 P) O.
He praised both Prokofiev and Marshak for the originality of their treatment of the central theme of world peace, but also complained about the "occasional wordiness" of the libretto. [12] Prokofiev attended the premiere alone because his wife was ill; she stayed at home where she listened to the broadcast of the performance with her father. [50]
Tales of an Old Grandmother, Op. 31 (Russian: Сказки старой бабушки, romanized: Skazki staroy babushki) is a set of four piano pieces by Sergei Prokofiev. It was composed in 1918 and premiered by the composer himself on January 7 the following year in New York City, probably at Aeolian Hall .
In his notes accompanying the full set of recordings of Prokofiev's sonatas by Boris Berman, David Fanning states the following: . Whether the restrained, even brooding quality of much of the Fourth Sonata relates in any direct way to Schmidthof's death is uncertain, but it is certainly striking that the first two movements both start gloomily in the piano's low register.
Sergei Prokofiev's Piano Sonata No. 3 in A minor, Op. 28 (1917) is a sonata composed for solo piano, using sketches dating from 1907. Prokofiev gave the première of this in Saint Petersburg on 15 April 1918, during a week-long festival of his music sponsored by the Conservatory. [1]
Visions fugitives, Op. 22, is a cycle of twenty piano miniatures by Sergei Prokofiev.The seventh piece was also published for harp.They were written between 1915 and 1917, individually, many for specific friends of the composer, and premiered by him as a cycle lasting some twenty minutes on April 15, 1918, in Petrograd.
Prokofiev himself played the solo part at the premiere on 16 December 1921 in Chicago with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra conducted by Frederick Stock. The work did not gain immediate popularity and had to wait until 1922 to be confirmed in the 20th century canon, after Serge Koussevitzky conducted a lavishly praised performance in Paris.