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  2. Sergei Prokofiev - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. List of compositions by Sergei Prokofiev - Wikipedia

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    Sergei Prokofiev, ca. 1918. This is a list of musical compositions by the 20th-century Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev. By genre. Operas. The Giant (1900)

  4. Symphony No. 6 (Prokofiev) - Wikipedia

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    Prokofiev prepared a brief description of the symphony ahead of its world premiere: The first movement is agitated, at times lyrical, at times austere; the second movement, "Largo", is brighter and more tuneful; the finale, rapid and in a major key, is close in character to my Fifth Symphony , save for reminiscences of the austere passages in ...

  5. Piano Concerto No. 6 (Prokofiev) - Wikipedia

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    Sergei Prokofiev did not manage to compose more than a few bars of his Piano Concerto No. 6 (Op. 134, sometimes Op. 133) before his death in 1953, so it is impossible to reconstruct the underlying musical ideas and complete it. [citation needed] The work is unusual in that it is scored for two pianos and a string orchestra. The other five of ...

  6. The Love for Three Oranges - Wikipedia

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    L'amour des trois oranges, Op. 33, is a 1921 satirical French-language opera by Sergei Prokofiev.He wrote his own libretto, basing it on the Italian play L'amore delle tre melarance, or The Love for Three Oranges (Russian: Любовь к трём апельсинам Lyubov k tryom apyelsinam) by Carlo Gozzi, and conducted the premiere, which took place at the Auditorium Theatre in Chicago on ...

  7. Symphony No. 1 (Prokofiev) - Wikipedia

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    Prokofiev's own style is noticeable in the way the themes step upward or downward into the neighboring keys before returning to the first one. This is especially true of the second theme of the first movement and of the gavotte. [4] Prokofiev wrote the symphony on holiday in the country, using it as an exercise in composing away from the piano. [5]

  8. Piano Concerto No. 3 (Prokofiev) - Wikipedia

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    The third movement, which Prokofiev himself called an "argument" [3] between soloist and orchestra, begins with an A-minor statement of the main theme in bassoons and pizzicato strings, interrupted by the piano's assertive entrance with a conflicting theme. Interplay between the piano and orchestra builds up steam, with a brief quickening of ...

  9. Symphony No. 2 (Prokofiev) - Wikipedia

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    Prokofiev later said that this symphony led him to have doubts about his ability as a composer for the first time in his life. [2] Prokofiev intended to reconstruct the piece in three movements, going so far as to assign the project the opus number 136, [3] but the composer died before he could undertake the revisions. The symphony, little ...