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	Sergei Prokofiev - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Prokofiev was born in Sontsovka, Russian Empire (now the village of Krasnoe in Donets'ka oblast', Ukraine).
		Prokofiev displayed unusual musical abilities by the age of five, and by the age of seven had also learned to play chess.
		Prokofiev had time to write his postwar Sixth Symphony and a ninth piano sonata (for Sviatoslav Richter) before the Party suddenly changed its opinion about his music.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Prokofiev (2162 words)

	Sergei Prokofiev
		Sergei Prokofiev, as he writes in his memoirs, "first saw the light of day on Wednesday 23rd April at five in the afternoon." The year was 1891, the centenary of Mozart’s death, the place a small village in the Ukraine, Sontsovka.
		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 was inspired to this task by his admiration for the ballerina Ulanova with whom he had developed a close relationship despite a stormy beginning during rehearsals for Romeo and Juliet.
	www.balletmet.org /Notes/Prokofiev.html (2185 words)

	- Classical Music Dictionary - Free MP3 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Prokofiev wrote seven symphonies; of these the Classical Symphony, a work written in 1916-17 with the work of Haydn in mind, is the best known; the Fifth Symphony of 1944 is a work on a much larger scale.
		Of Prokofiev's five piano concertos the third is best known, written in the composer's instantly recognisable musical language, from the incisive opening to the motor rhythms that follow, in a mixture of lyricism and acerbic wit.
		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.
	www.karadar.com /Dictionary/prokofiev.html (559 words)

	Prokofiev, Prisoner of the State/Part 2
		Had Prokofiev been at the emergency session of the Soviet Composers' Union in Moscow that February (he was on tour in Europe), he might yet have reconsidered his move to Russia.
		Returning to the USSR in March, Prokofiev got himself into hotter water by venturing that a sensible definition of Formalism might be "music which one does not understand at first hearing".
		Like Prokofiev, Eisenstein had returned to the USSR in 1932, though he had thereupon vanished from view so completely that for years it was thought that he had been liquidated as a "renegade".
	www.siue.edu /~aho/musov/proko/prokofiev2.html (2230 words)

	Prokofiev Was Stalin's Final Victim
		Of Prokofiev's seven important symphonies, only the first and fifth are performed with any regularity; of his five piano concertos, only the third and fifth.
		Prokofiev is universally acknowledged as one of the foremost composers of the twentieth century, albeit the least explored.
		Prokofiev, having left Russia after the revolution, returned in 1933 and resettled in 1936, the only genius who was fool enough to believe Stalin's promises of haven.
	www.scena.org /lsm/sm8-9/Prokofiev-en.htm (1006 words)

	DanceWorks SideSteps - People: Sergey Prokofiev (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Prokofiev's music for ballet spans his career from 1915 to his death in 1953.
		Despite the termination of his first assignment, he gave Prokofiev a second commission which resulted in the score for Chout (sometimes known as The Buffoon) to be choreographed by Massine.
		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).
	www.danceworksonline.co.uk /sidesteps/people/prokofiev2.htm (674 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| Music \| Prokofiev legacy holds strong
		Prokofiev was too politically naïve to realise that the Soviet authorities simply wanted to be able to claim his home-coming as a ringing endorsement of the Soviet system.
		Prokofiev sought solace in his work, and found a worthy collaborator in the film director Sergey Eisenstein, a former pupil of Meyerhold.
		Then in February 1948, Prokofiev's first wife Lina was arrested on a trumped-up charge of spying and sentenced to 20 years in a labour camp.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/low/entertainment/music/2818445.stm (870 words)

	Chad Twedt: Prokofiev
		One of the greatest Russian composers was an early twentieth-century composer, Sergey Prokofiev, born on April 23, 1891 in Ukraine.
		Lina Prokofiev, as a foreigner, was certainly by that time persona non grata in Moscow; some years later she was arrested on charges of espionage and comitted to a labour camp.
		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.
	www.twedt.com /prokofiev.html (1448 words)

	Kennedy Center: Biographical information for Sergei Prokofiev
		Prokofiev was born in 1891 in the Ukraine, then part of the Russian Empire.
		In 1904 Prokofiev moved to St. Petersburg and was accepted to the St. Petersburg Conservatory, the youngest student ever to be admitted.
		When Prokofiev returned to his homeland in 1927, he was celebrated as a Russian hero whose revolutionary music had conquered the West.
	www.kennedy-center.org /calendar/index.cfm?fuseaction=showIndividual&entitY_id=3827&source_type=C (584 words)

	Some Reflections on Prokofiev's Music by Bruce Turlish
		Prokofiev's use of martial, driving rhythm in the first movement is exhilarating, yet a strong melodic line runs through this music also; the overall effect, while somewhat harsh, is extremely exciting.
		Prokofiev himself had a particular fondness for this symphony, saying that he had always liked it for its "subdued tone and wealth of material." My suspicion is that the subtle nature of this music will always work against its chances of becoming popular, but it stands as a compelling testimonial to Prokofiev's melodic creativity.
		Prokofiev, with his love of fantastic imagery and larger-than-life action was drawn to writing music that reflected those interests; he was quite capable of writing in a more introspective vein when he chose to.
	www.fortunecity.com /victorian/brambles/48/prodoc1.html (2183 words)

	Prokofiev (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Prokofiev's equivalent to The Rite of Spring was the barbaric Scythian Suite (1914), which prompted the critic Kolonitsev to write: 'Each man does what he is able.
		She also said that dancing a fox-trot with Prokofiev was impossible because of his deplorable sense of rhythm.
		While waiting for the ballet to be staged Prokofiev drew two orchestral suites from the 52 pieces of which the ballet is made up (a third was put together in 1941).
	www.pluto.no /OFO/CD/Prokofiev_No1&2.html (961 words)

	Prokofiev Discography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Though Prokofiev is rightly remembered as a composer rather than as pianist, he was in many respects an ideal interpreter of his music.
		Prokofiev would probably have allowed performers far greater leeway with his music than are commonly taken.
		Prokofiev begins the ritard marked in the second half of bar 52, which precedes the return to the opening theme, in the second half of bar 51.
	home.earthlink.net /~marnest/prokofiev.html (2223 words)

	Brain-Juice \| Biography of Sergey Prokofiev (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Toward the end of his studies, Prokofiev finally found his match in his last and best teacher, Nikolay Tcherepnin, who offered guidance to Prokofiev during the composition of early irony-laden pastoral works like the symphonic poems, Dreams and Autumn Sketch, and the bold opera, The Fiery Angel.
		Prokofiev’s career as a composer took off in the years preceding World War I. He traveled to Paris and London, where he was warmly welcomed by the celebrated Ballets Russes company, which included composer Igor Stravinsky and artistic impresario Serge Diaghilev.
		In 1948, the Kremlin banned much of Prokofiev's work, citing it as "marked with formalist perversions alien to the Soviet people." In 1952, he moved back to Moscow to be closer to his doctors, and on March 5, 1953, Sergey Prokofiev died of a brain hemorrhage in his home.
	www.brain-juice.com /cgi-bin/show_bio.cgi?p_id=31http://www.brain-juice.com/cgi-bin/show_bio.cgi?p_id=31http://www.brain-juice.com/cgi-bin/show_bio.cgi?p_id=31http://www.brain-juice.com/cgi-bin/show_bio.cgi?p_id=31 (1137 words)

	Sergey Prokofiev (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Prokofiev is most famous for his operas Love for Three Oranges and War and Peace, his ballet Romeo and Juliet, his film music for Lieutenant Kije and Alexander Nevsky, and above all for his musical tale for children Peter and the Wolf.
		Prokofiev left Russia after the 1917 Revolution, and bedazzled western audiences with his hard-edged, virtuoso performances on the piano and exuberantly colourful scores such as the opera The Love for Three Oranges and his Third Piano Concerto.
		Prokofiev’s musical development did not always run parallel to the three neat stages into which his life fell – his brilliant youth in pre-Revolutionary Russia, the unsettled years in Europe and the United States, and the final return to the USSR in the mid-Thirties.
	www.musicwrite.demon.co.uk /sp.html (708 words)

	Music, Prokofiev - Johnson's Russia List 1-23-03
		Prokofiev had lots of friends in the neighbouring villages, and he also had happy memories of his time at the St Petersburg Conservatoire.
		In 1941, Prokofiev left his wife and family to live with a young woman he had met on holiday, Mira Mendelson, who was eventually to help him with the librettos of his operas Betrothal in a Monastery and The Story of a Real Man and with his ballet The Tale of the Stone Flower.
		Despite all, she remained a fervent champion of Prokofiev's music, just as her son Sviatoslav is now, having recently seen through publication a massive two-volume Russian edition of his father's diaries from 1907 to 1933.
	www.cdi.org /russia/johnson/7030-21.cfm (1241 words)

	Press Information \| Impact of Prokofiev (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953) is considered one of the great 20th-century composers, having mastered a number of genres ranging from symphonies and concerti to opera and ballet.
		Prokofiev's career spanned the turbulent first half of the 20th century, an era of extraordinary artistic and political upheaval that bridged the Russian Revolution and two world wars.
		Prokofiev and His Contemporaries: The Impact of Soviet Culture is a project of The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Jacqueline Z. Davis, the Barbara G. and Lawrence A. Fleischman Executive Director, and the MUSICARUSSIA FOUNDATION, Carolyn F. Hellman, Executive Director.
	www.nypl.org /press/prokofiev.cfm (1435 words)

	The Friendship of Miaskovsky and Prokofiev by David Wright MusicWeb(UK) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Prokofiev said that he did not like cellos in unison and spoke of a passage in Sibelius 's Third Symphony or perhaps it was another, that confirmed his dislike for cellos in unison.
		Prokofiev and Miaskovsky attended a performance of Scriabin's The Poem of Ecstasy with great interest although they were at times perplexed by the music.
		Prokofiev dedicated his Third Symphony to Miaskovsky; it was first performed in Paris on 17 May 1933 under Pierre Monteux.
	www.musicweb-international.com /classrev/2002/July02/miaskovsky.htm (1156 words)

	Prokofiev, Sergey (1891 - 1953) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Sergey Prokofiev, precocious as a child, entered the St. Petersburg Conservatory in 1904, by which time he had already written a great deal of music.
		In style Prokofiev is ironic, writing in a musical language that is often acerbic.
		Prokofiev first attempted to write an opera at the age of nine.
	www.naxos.com /composer/prokofie.htm (595 words)

	Contra Costa Wind Symphony: Sergei Prokofiev
		Although his parents were hesitant to force their son into a musical career at such an early age, in 1904 he moved to St Petersburg and entered the Academy of Music.
		Mostly untouched by all of this, Prokofiev turned to composing music for children (Three Songs for Children, Peter and the Wolf, and others) as well as the gigantic Cantata for the Twentieth Anniversary of the October Revolution, which was, however, never performed.
		In 1944, Prokofiev moved to an estate outside of Moscow, to compose his Fifth Symphony that would turn out to be his most successful.
	www.ccwindsymphony.org /Prokofiev.htm (1018 words)

	classical music - andante - four revealing new discs explore prokofiev works familiar and unfamiliar
		Yet some of those Prokofiev works which were regarded in the Soviet empire as models of socialist realism are the same pieces that have enjoyed repertory status in the West Peter and the Wolf, Romeo and Juliet, Alexander Nevsky and the Fifth Symphony.
		Prokofiev's final ballet score, The Legend of the Stone Flower, has never been popular anywhere: while there are 16 recorded performances currently available of Romeo and Juliet and eight of Cinderella, there is only one of Stone Flower — this new version by Gianandrea Noseda and the BBC Philharmonic on Chandos.
		Prokofiev was just as interested in working for the theater as for the screen, and two works on this disc are suites the composer arranged from incidental music he composed for productions of Alexander Tairov's Egyptian Nights and Shakespeare's Hamlet.
	www.andante.com /article/article.cfm?id=21562 (1548 words)

	AllRefer.com - Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev (Music: History, Composers, And Performers, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Prokofiev achieved wide popularity with his lively music, in which he achieved a pungent mixture of modern and traditional elements.
		Prokofiev's early works are often harsh and strident, deliberately avoiding emotionalism.
		Later he wrote in a more simplified, popular style, although he never lost his individuality.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/P/Prokofie.html (425 words)

	Sergei Prokofiev
		Prokofiev showed his talent, especially for composition, at an early age.
		Prokofiev maintained a generally stable, if tenuous relationship with the Soviet government, especially in the years of World War II, when his works answered the call for patriotic, optimistic music.
		Prokofiev was a composer of great stylistic breadth who always demanded originality of himself.
	www.wwnorton.com /classical/composers/prokfv.htm (646 words)

	Sergei Prokofiev (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		It was his first work composed away from the piano, because Prokofiev want Prokofiev was not well-liked in the United States, and he did not have much love for the country after his opera The Love for Three Oranges, flopped.
		Stravinsky writes that this was because Prokofiev's fate was uncertain in France and he was naïve enough to ignore the repressions that were going on in Russia at the time.
		Yet even Prokofiev was under attack in 1948 when the Party condemned "the formalistic movement in Soviet music as anti-national and leading to the liquidation of music." The only thing this kind of music would have led to would have been the "liquidation" of the composers who wrote it!
	home.uchicago.edu /~nat222/viktor/prokofiev.html (640 words)

	Sergei Prokofiev
		Prokofiev was born on April 23, 1891, in Sontsovka, Ukraine.
		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.
		Shostakovich told the government that he was embarrassed to explain to people from around the world that his music and the music of other Soviet composers was banned in their own country.
	www.sbgmusic.com /html/teacher/reference/composers/prokof.html (590 words)

	Prokofiev plays Prokofiev [JL]: Classical Reviews- November 2001 MusicWeb(UK) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Prokofiev was a very considerable pianist in his own right and recordings of him playing music other than his own would be of historical interest but a disc of him playing his own works is clearly an important authoritative aural document.
		Prokofiev characteristically never brings the visceral excitement of, say, Kapell whose galvanizing recording is for many the benchmark performance of the work.
		As much as in the 1932 Concerto recording we hear Prokofiev's remarkable rhythmic attack, his melodic accents, discreet use of the pedal and everywhere his wit - the performance of the Classical Symphony's Gavotte is an especially treasurable example.
	www.musicweb-international.com /classrev/2001/Nov01/Prokofiev_plays_Prokofiev.htm (1338 words)

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