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| | Sergei Prokofiev |
 | | Prokofiev and Diaghilev met for the first time in London in 1914 and, as it was the shrewd and ultimately sagacious impresario’s practice to encourage young talent, he presented the composer with his first ballet commission. | | | Prokofiev’s music for ballet spans his career from 1915 to his death in 1953. | | | During the summer of 1931 Prokofiev was commissioned to write the music for a ballet by Serge Lifar entitled Sur le Boryshène (On the Dnieper). |
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| | Sergei Prokofiev - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Now Prokofiev moved with his mother to the Bavarian Alps for over a year, so as to concentrate fully on his composing. | | | In the early 1930s Prokofiev was starting to long for Russia again, moving more and more of his premieres and commissions to his home country instead of Paris. | | | In 1914 Prokofiev left the Conservatory with the highest marks of his class, a feat which won him a grand piano. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Prokofiev
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| | Chad Twedt: Prokofiev |
| | Prokofiev was never completely estranged from her, and Mira Mendelson, though she lived with the composer until his death, was not, as Soviet sources state, his second wife. | | | This seems to strongly suggest that something was going on in Prokofiev's life politically at the time, and if it was the main reason that Prokofiev broke off his 17-year marriage, there is no telling what it could have done to the philosophy behind his music. | | | In view of Prokofiev's mysterious treatment of his marriage, and his contradicting statments of wanting to become more harmonious but hating the music of Mozart, it is difficult to say whether or not Prokofiev meant everything he said and did. |
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| | Sergei Prokofiev's Bibliography |
| | In the summer of 1917 Prokofiev was included in the Council of Workers in the Arts, which led Russia's left wing of artistic activity; but for almost nine months he was stranded in the Caucasus, cut off from Petrograd by the civil war. | | | In 1914 Prokofiev became acquainted with the great ballet impresario Sergey Diaghilev, who became one of his most influential advisers for the next decade and a half. | | | One of the summits of Prokofiev's art was the production of his ballet Romeo and Juliet in Leningrad, with Galina Ulanova in the leading role. |
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| | Prokofiev Discography |
| | Though Prokofiev is rightly remembered as a composer rather than as pianist, he was in many respects an ideal interpreter of his music. | | | Pedal: Prokofiev takes even more liberties with his pedal markings, toward which his attitude appears to have been that the indication "Ped" means he wants it, but that otherwise it's up to the performer whether to use it. | | | Compared to Paderewski, Prokofiev's playing is indeed straight; compared to most modern performances of his music, it contains a wealth of rhythmic inflections. |
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| | Sergei Prokofiev - an overview of the classical composer |
| | Sergei Prokofiev was born in the Ukraine, and by his early teens he was an accomplished pianist and already composing works such as the "Scythian Suite". | | | Perhaps this was something of an act or "a phase he was going through" because it became apparent that, for all the novelties introduced in his style, Prokofiev was at heart a traditional classical composer. | | | Although an earlier commission from Diaghilev was unfruitful, he wrote a number of highly dynamic ballets, operas and film music. |
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http://www.mfiles.co.uk/composers/Sergei-Prokofiev.htm
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| | - Classical Music Dictionary - Free MP3 |
| | One of the most widely known of all Prokofiev's compositions is his tale for children "Peter and the Wolf", for narrator and orchestra, a simple pedagogical work to introduce children to the instruments of the orchestra, with instruments, or groups of instruments, representing characters in the story. | | | He completed his C major Cello Sonata in 1949, but a second sonata for the instrument was left unfinished at the time of his death. | | | His early Cello Concerto was followed in 1952, fourteen years later, by a Cello Concertino, completed by the cellist Rostropovich and the composer Kabalevsky after Prokofiev's death. |
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http://www.karadar.com/Dictionary/prokofiev.html
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| | BBC - h2g2 - Sergei Prokofiev |
| | Prokofiev himself characterised his style with 'five lines'; five ideas that underpin the majority of his music. | | | Grotesque Line: Prokofiev would rather have had this known as humorous or not considered a major part of his style at all, but he listed it as people studying his music had identified it. | | | This was especially evident in some of his earlier work, for example the 'Scythian Suite', but it is also evident in other works, in his use of 'wrong' notes in harmony. |
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A354593
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| | Featured Composer SERGEI SERGEYEVICH PROKOFIEV |
| | Prokofiev considered his First Piano concerto to be his "first more or less mature composition as regards to conception and fulfillment." The score's musical sweep and pianistic complexities were clearly the work of an "original" creative mind. | | | Prokofiev wrote "There were too many layers of counterpoint that degenerated into mere figuration
This was perhaps the first time it appeared to me that I might be destined to be a second rate composer." The French composer Francis Poulenc (of "Les Six") liked the modernist score and so did Diaghilev. | | | (Prokofiev was unaware what had happened to Lina until his sons visited him with the news.) After her release Lina lived in Moscow until 1972 when she reestablished her Spanish citizenship, moved to London, and set up the Prokofiev Foundation and Archives. |
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http://www.lawrencebudmen.com/articles_sergei_prokofiev.html
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| | Sergei Prokofiev |
| | Prokofiev was living in Paris at the time and received the commission from the five member instrumental ensemble of a traveling ballet troupe. | | | It was in 1919, while Prokofiev was living in New York, that a small group of Jewish musicians, former schoolmates from the St. Petersburg Conservatory, approached him with the idea of writing a piece for their ensemble, Zimro. | | | This Sonata had, by Prokofiev’s standards an unusually long gestation period, composed as it was in wartime Russia. |
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http://www.fuguemasters.com/prokofiev.html
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| | SERGEI PROKOFIEV by Karen Monson |
| | Igor Stravinsky and Sergei Prokofiev made their marks as collaborators for the dance while working in Western Europe with the great Diaghilev, his Ballet russes, and the master choreographers and scenic designers in that legendary entourage. | | | This Dance of the Knights, a sombre and ceremonial round, presents the warring families and their retinues in Prokofiev's most angular idioms, with brief suggestions of the love story that is to follow. | | | This vignette was one of the segments which Prokofiev's early critics found out of place in the ballet; nevertheless, it is not without dramatic impact and meaning. |
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http://www-rcf.usc.edu/~echew/performances/prok.html
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| | Sergei Prokofiev |
| | In 1902 and 1903, Prokofiev’s parents hired Reinhold Glière, a composer then in his 20s, to live with the family in the summers and give Prokofiev private lessons in composition. | | | Today Sergei Prokofiev is best remembered for Peter and the Wolf, his much loved piece that introduces children to classical music. | | | After the Russian Revolution of 1917, when the Communists took over Russia, Prokofiev realized that life would be difficult for musicians and artists under the new government. |
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| | sergei prokofiev - Books, journals, articles @ The Questia Online Library |
| | PROKOFIEV, SERGEI SERGEYEVICH syirga syirga vich...Russian composer, pianist, and conductor. | | | Nestyev Sergei Prokofiev, His Musical Life 1946...to combine the biography of Sergei Prokofiev with brief descriptions of his... | | | ...Feofanov If one were to strip Sergei Prokofiev of his music and consider the...especially in his youth. |
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| | Piano Society - Prokofiev Biography |
| | Never fully at home, Prokofiev re-visited Russia in 1927 and 1929 and returned there to live in 1933, choosing an inopportune moment when the doctrine of ‘socialist realism’ in the arts had just been propounded. | | | Like Walton and Poulenc, he was fundamentally a romantic melodist and his style is formed like theirs from a reconciliation of the two strains in his personality, the tough, astringent modernist and the lyrical traditionalist. | | | He found an outlet for his particular gifts in film music—brilliant scores for Lieutenant Kijé and Alexander Nevsky—and ballet (Romeo and Juliet and, later, Cinderella), In 1941 he began work on his most ambitious opera, War and Peace, and in 1944 wrote his richest and most heroic symphony, the 5th. |
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| | The chess games of Sergei Prokofiev |
| | I have studied the second one in g-minor and the way you describe his bittersweet expressions in his compositions is quite remarkable in this concert. | | | If you enjoy his pieces, that is good for you; for whatever reasons, Prokofiev's music stinks to my ear (to a lesser extent than Stravinsky and other modernists, albeit). | | | This is of course not to demean his abilities of form / orchestration / inventiveness etc.; his style and I are apparently just incompatible. |
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| | Lesson Tutor: Classical Composer Biography: Sergei Prokofiev |
| | Prokofiev was a composer of many parts, blending musical radicalism and intellectual toughness with the older Russian romantic tradition of Tchaikovsky and Rimsky-Korsakov. | | | Born in 1891 in Krasnoye near Ekaterinoslav, Russia, Sergei Prokofiev's life was as varied as his music. | | | His works were still being played in the concert hall and, moreover there came a major commission from the Kirov Ballet in Leningrad (which materialized as the wonderfully lyrical ‘Romeo and Juliet' and an invitation to write the music for a satirical comedy film ‘Lieutenant Kije' |
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| | Amazon.com: Sergei Prokofiev: A Biography: Books: Harlow Robinson |
| | Prokofiev's career disappointments were many, some even tragic, and the author doesnt beat around the bush, but the admirable thread of fierce devotion maintained by Prokofiev toward his own unquenchable musical purpose is thoughtfully argued by Robinson throughout the book, indeed it's one its strengths. | | | Prokofiev traveled widely during much of his career, and his observations on the contemporary music scene make entertaining reading. | | | His is a "warts and all" treatment: though obviously sympathetic to his subject, Robinson candidly exposes Prokofiev's flaws, from his musical capriciousness and opportunism to his unpardonable social tactlessness. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1555535178?v=glance
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| | Sergei Prokofiev |
| | In America, Prokofiev met a young singer, Lina Llubera, who became his first wife and the mother of two of his sons. | | | Diaghilev commissioned a ballet and had his own ballet company produce it. | | | But he did not received more commissions in the United States, so he moved to Paris in the spring of 1920 to meet Sergei Diaghilev, a rich patron of music. |
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http://www.nwmissouri.edu/dept/music/sounds/aolson/school/Prokofievreport.htm
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| | Sergei Prokofiev |
| | Prokofiev showed his talent, especially for composition, at an early age. | | | Prokofiev was a composer of great stylistic breadth who always demanded originality of himself. | | | He died within a day of Stalin, and it was only after the passing of the political upheavals that his music returned to its central place in the Russian repertory. |
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http://www.wwnorton.com/enjoy/shorter/composers/prokfv.htm
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| | Alexander Nevsky - Sergei Prokofiev |
| | Sergei Prokofiev is probably most famous for his ballet, Romeo and Juliet (see Star Trek III, track 3 for a sampling of this work) and the Troika from Lieutentant Kije is almost impossible to miss around Christmas. | | | In terms of film music though, Prokofiev's greatest triumph was probably his score for Eisenstein's Alexander Nevsky. | | | For some reason it reminds me of Stravinky's Firebird, although the styles of the composers are far too distinct to confuse them. |
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| | Classics for Kids Past Shows |
| | Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev lived and traveled around the world, but found that he was most at home in Russia. | | | This look at his life takes you on his travels and highlights some of his music, including Peter and the Wolf, which he wrote for the Central Children's Theatre in Moscow. |
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| | BBC - Music / Profiles - Sergei Prokofiev |
| | He was a gifted melodist with a unique musical voice, who wrote in a wide range of genres including operas, ballets, film scores, cantatas, and orchestral, chamber and instrumental works. | | | In 1918 when life under the Bolsheviks began to interfere with his composing, Prokofiev left Russia for America and France where he also became famous as a concert pianist | | | Try the search box to the right, or the Artist Profiles. |
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| | Prokofiev Links |
| | Contains brief biography of Prokofiev as well an analysis of his compositional style as it relates to other composers of classical music. | | | Their profile of Prokofiev includes a biography, list of key dates, some RealAudio sound clips of his music, and an unusual collage. | | | This page contains lots of useful information about Prokofiev, including a brief biography, a list of his works, selected discography from Universal's stable of classical record labels, and links to features about artists who play Prokofiev's music on one of the Universal labels. |
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| | 1701618ED - Sergei Prokofiev - Piano Works Volume III - Piano Solo |
| | Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev began composing these piano works in 1915 and continued writing the works in this volume up until 1935. | | | March Of The Grasshoppers - Composer: Sergei Prokofiev | | | Three Pieces For Piano: Landscape - Composer: Sergei Prokofiev |
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| | The Sergei Prokofiev Piano Web Page |
| | This site will focus on materials relating to Prokofiev's piano music and his own playing of his piano works. | | | a listing of Prokofiev's piano compositions, including date of composition, date of publication, date and location of premiere, and other pertinent information regarding the works. | | | a bibliography of books and articles on Prokofiev and his music, primarily in English. |
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| | Sergei Prokofiev Movie Soundtracks |
| | Movie soundtracks by Sergei Prokofiev, in alphabetical order (or sort by year) |
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| | Sergei Prokofiev |
| | Born in 1891, Sergei Prokofiev, the child prodigy was already composing at the age of five, and by twenty had five operas in his catalogue. | | | It is correct to affirm that the communist regime did put a brake to his innovative creative work. | | | The quartet closes with a beautiful Andante that Prokofiev later transcribed for piano and which is known as his op.52. |
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| | The Sergei Prokofiev Website |
| | This website is devoted to the great Soviet composer Sergei Prokofiev. | | | Herein you will find varied materials related to his life and music. | | | The Soviet poet Vladimir Mayakovsky commenting upon his newly-found enthusiasm for Prokofiev's music |
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| | Harlow Robinson - Sergei Prokofiev: A Biography |
| | Robinson candidly exposes Prokofiev's flaws, from his musical capriciousness and opportunism to his unpardonable social tactlessness. | | | Drawing on unprecedented access to previously unknown or unavailable Russian-language sources, including extensive archival material, Robinson traces Prokofiev's extraordinary life from the fairy-tale world of Czarist Russia, through his many years abroad in America and Europe, to his perlexing permanent return to Moscow in 1936 under the Soviet Regime. | | | That Prokofiev died on the very day as Josef Stalin, his principal persecutor, was the final irony of his intense and enigmatic career. |
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| | Amazon.co.uk: Prokofiev - Romeo and Juliet: Music |
| | Romeo And Juliet: Juliet Refuses To Marry Paris - Prokofiev | | | Styles > Classical > Classical Instrumental > Composers > M-P > Prokofiev | | | Romeo And Juliet: The Last Farewell - Prokofiev |
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| | Prokofiev, Sergei Sergeyevich - Columbia Encyclopedia® article about Prokofiev, Sergei Sergeyevich |
| | Later he wrote in a more simplified, popular style, although he never lost his individuality. | | | Prokofiev achieved wide popularity with his lively music, in which he achieved a pungent mixture of modern and traditional elements. | | | Prokofiev, Sergei Sergeyevich (syĭrgā` syĭrgā`əvĭch prōkôf`ēĕf), 1891–1953, Russian composer, pianist, and conductor. |
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| | Sergei Prokofiev News |
| | 6 - Last time Sergei Prokofiev's ballet 'Cinderella' was staged at the Bolshoi in 1945, after the end of the WWII, when country was still in ruins. | | | According to one eyewitness report, concertgoers at the 1913 premiere of Sergei Prokofiev's Second Piano Concerto were "frozen in fright, hair standing on end," and when the piece was over, those who hadn't... | | | Finnish label to release premiere of Berio's last work |
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| | Amazon.ca: Prokofiev: Search Results Books |
| | Sergei Prokofiev: Autobiography, Articles, Reminiscences -- by S. Shlifstein (Author), Rose Prokofieva (Translator) | | | by Sergei Prokofiev (Composer), Pavel Lukyanchenko (Editor) (Paperback - May 2000) | | | by G Schirmer Inc (Author), Sergey Prokofiev (Composer) (Paperback - March 1999) |
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| | Sergei Prokofiev |
| | Prokof'ev / Sergej Prokof'ev / Sergei Prokofieff / Serge Prokofieff / S. Prokofiev / Serge Prokofiev | | | Prokofiev was a multi-talented man and an innovative composer. | | | Find where Sergei Prokofiev is credited alongside another name |
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| | sergei prokofiev piano sheet music |
| | Recorder Sheet Music By Sergei Prolofiev: - Sergei Prokofiev - Piano... | | | Piano Sheet Music By Sergei Prokofiev: - Sergei Prokofiev - Sonata... | | | Violin Sheet Music By Sergei Prolofiev: - Sergei Prokofiev - Piano... |
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| | Sergei Prokofiev |
| | The Music of Sergei Prokofiev (Composers of the Twentieth Century) by Neil Minturn | | | Ukraine-born Sergei Prokofiev was a brilliant pianist, conductor and composer. | | | He wrote seven symphonies, violin and piano concerti, operas, a cantata, ballets and many works for chamber orchestras. |
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| | Sergei Prokofiev |
| | Meanwhile his own impulse to remain a Westerner was gradually eroded and in 1936 he settled in Moscow, where initially his concern was with the relatively modest genres of song, incidental music, patriotic cantata and children's entertainment (Peter and the Wolf, 1936). | | | Romeo and Juliet, the full-length ballet commissioned for the Bol'shoy, had its première at Brno in 1938, and only later became a staple of the Soviet repertory: its themes of aggression and romantic love provided, as also did the Eisenstein film Alexander Nevsky, a receptacle for Prokofiev's divergent impulses. |
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| | Sergei Prokofiev, Composer |
| | Prokofiev, whose mother was a pianist, was a child prodigy and virtuoso pianist who composed his first opera when he was twelve years old. | | | He was also something of a spoiled brat, and throughout his life he liked to break rules. |
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| | Random House Authors Sergei Prokofiev |
| | THERE IS NO better way to introduce children to classical music than with Prokofiev’s musical fairy tale of the little boy (played by all the strings of the orchestra) who, with the help of a bird (played by the flute), outsmarted the big, bad wolf (played by the French horns). |
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http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=24587
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| | Sergei Prokofiev's Troika |
| | My web page is devoted to Sergei Prokofiev's "Troika," which is from the symphonic suite "Lieutenant Kije." This site includes information on the composer, as well as many aspects of this particular movement, including melodic, harmonic, and rhythmic content, as well as formal structure and expressive elements. | | | I have also included a lesson plan that outlines specific rhythmic activities that can be used in the classroom. |
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http://www.fortunecity.com/lavender/candyman/915/prokpage.html
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| | Sergei Prokofiev,Neeme Jarvi,Scottish National Orchestra |
| | This is one intense performance of Sergei Prokofiev's second most popular symphony (the most popular one is the "Classical" Symphony). | | | The climaxes of the first and third movements ring out with earsplitting violence, which is exactly what the composer intended. | | | Waltz Suite, Opus 110: no 4, End of the Fairytale |
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http://web.telia.com/~u52305192/proko.html
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| | The Prokofiev Page |
| | Whose recordings of the complete set of Prokofiev symphonies do you like best? |
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