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Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev [n 2] (27 April [O.S. 15 April] 1891 – 5 March 1953) [n 3] was a Russian [7] [8] [9] composer, pianist, and conductor who later worked in the Soviet Union. [10] As the creator of acknowledged masterpieces across numerous music genres , he is regarded as one of the major composers of the 20th century.
Alexander Nevsky, Op. 78 (1938), film directed by Sergei Eisenstein (also exists in the form of a cantata, see below) Lermontov (1941) Kotovsky (1942) Tonya (1942) The Partisans in the Ukrainian Steppes (1942) Ivan the Terrible, Op. 116 (1942–45), film directed by Sergei Eisenstein (also exists in various concert forms arranged by various people)
Sergei Prokofiev (1891–1953) Alexander Chuhaldin (1892–1951) Arthur Lourié (1892–1966) Nikolai Obukhov (1892–1954) Aleksandr Gauk (1893–1963) Pylyp Kozytskiy (1893–1960) Leo Ornstein (1893–2002) Sergei Protopopov (1893–1954) Ivan Wyschnegradsky (1893–1979) Mikhail Youdin (1893–1948) Boris Ledkovsky (1894–1975) Samuel ...
Prokofiev wrote a short program for the fifth piece in 1941, leaving all the other sarcasms without a program. [ 1 ] [ 3 ] "We often indulge in malicious laughter at someone or something, but when we pause to look we see how pitiful and sad is the object of our ridicule; and then we grow ashamed, the mocking laughter rings in our ears, but it ...
Sergei Prokofiev began his Violin Concerto No. 1 in D major, Op. 19, as a concertino in 1915 but soon abandoned it to work on his opera The Gambler. He returned to the concerto in the summer of 1917. He returned to the concerto in the summer of 1917.
Sergei Prokofiev conducted the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus in the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, with soloist Varvara Gagarina (mezzo-soprano). [ 5 ] The first American performance took place on 7 March 1943 in an NBC Radio broadcast.
Prokofiev originally wrote the music for the ballet Ala i Lolli, the story of which takes place among the Scythians. Commissioned by Sergei Diaghilev , the ballet was written to a scenario by Russian poet Sergey Gorodetsky .
Chout was Prokofiev's first completed ballet score for Sergei Diaghilev.Diaghilev had first commissioned Ala and Lolli but rejected the score submitted by Prokofiev. . Although the composer recast some of the music as the Scythian Suite, the projected ballet never saw the lig