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Five Poems after Akhmatova, for voice and piano 1916 28 Piano Sonata No. 3 in A minor 1917 29 Piano Sonata No. 4 in C minor 1917 29bis Andante from Piano Sonata No. 4, for orchestra 1934 30 Seven, They are Seven, cantata 1917–18, rev. 1933 31 Tales of an Old Grandmother, four pieces for piano 1918 32 Four Pieces for Piano 1918 33
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.
Sergei Prokofiev's Piano Sonata No. 1 in F minor, Op. 1 was written in 1909. It consists of a single movement in sonata form. Movements (sub-movements)
Sergei Prokofiev's Piano Sonata No. 7 in B ♭ major, Op. 83 (occasionally called the "Stalingrad") [citation needed] is a sonata for solo piano, the second of the three "War Sonatas", composed in 1942.
By the time of Prokofiev's birth, Maria—having previously lost two daughters—had devoted her life to music; during her son's early childhood, she spent two months a year in Moscow or St Petersburg taking piano lessons. [19] Sergei Prokofiev was inspired by hearing his mother practicing the piano in the evenings, mostly works by Chopin and ...
Prokofiev's last piano concerto dates from 1932, a year after he finished the fourth piano concerto, whose solo part is for left hand only.According to the composer, he was then inspired to write another for two hands, whose intended simplicity was reflected in the desire to call it, not a concerto, but rather 'Music for Piano and Orchestra.'
Sergei Prokofiev set about composing his Piano Concerto No. 1 in D-flat major, Op. 10, in 1911, and finished it the next year. The shortest of all his concertos, it is in one movement, about 15 minutes in duration, and dedicated to the “dreaded Tcherepnin .” [ 1 ]
Sergei Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 4 in B-flat major for the left hand, Op. 53, was commissioned by the one-armed pianist Paul Wittgenstein and completed in 1931.. It was the only one of Prokofiev's complete piano concertos that never saw a performance during his lifetime.