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	Symphony - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Krzysztof Penderecki (born 1933), Polish composer of 8 symphonies (as of 2005).
		Franz Schreker (1879-1934), Austrian composer of the Chamber Symphony.
		Josef Suk (1874-1934), Czech composer of the 'Asrael' Symphony.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Symphony (3987 words)

	Symphony No. 3 (Prokofiev) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Symphony No. 3 in C minor, opus 44, by Sergei Prokofiev dates from 1928.
		The music of the symphony is highly chromatic and dissonant, with an emotional intensity which reflects the neuroticism and hysterics of the opera and its subject matter of demonic possession.
		For example, the end of the third, scherzo-like movement of the symphony is the music that ends the last act of the opera, while the finale of the symphony uses much music from the opera's second act.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Symphony_No._3_(Prokofiev) (279 words)

	Symphony No. 3 (Prokofiev) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Symphony No. 3 in C minor, opus 44, by Sergei Prokofiev dates from 1928.
		The music of the symphony is highly chromatic and dissonant, with an emotional intensity which reflects the neuroticism and hysterics of the opera.
		For example, the end of the third, scherzo-like movement of the symphony is the music that ends the last act of the opera, while the finale of the symphony uses much music from the opera's second act.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Symphony_No._3_(Prokofiev) (262 words)

	Symphony No. 2 (Prokofiev) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Symphony No. 2 in D minor, opus 40, by Sergei Prokofiev was written from 1924 to 1925.
		The piece was premiered in Paris on June 6, 1925, conducted by Serge Koussevitzky, and was not well received; Prokofiev commented that neither the audience nor himself understood the piece.
		Prokofiev planned to reconstruct the piece into three movements late in his life, going so far as to assign the project the opus number 136, but this plan never came to fruition.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Symphony_No._2_(Prokofiev) (211 words)

	Symphony No. 1 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ralph Vaughan Williams' Symphony No. 1, A Sea Symphony
		Among the pieces of music with the title Symphony No. 1 are:
		This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Symphony_No._1 (119 words)

	Prokofiev's Symphony No.2
		Symphony No. 2 was premiered on June 6, 1925 and received overwhelming negative reaction from press and public alike.
		Prokofiev remarked at the failure of the work: "Neither I nor the audience understood anything in it..." Of course, he was exaggerating his response to the cold welcome, but he must have harbored some serious doubts about the artistic value of his new composition since he later planned to revise it.
		As a footnote to Prokofiev's French years, it should be noted that many of the Parisian elite did, after all, come to regard him as the composer of the 1920s, thanks in great part to his brilliant ballets Le Pas D'Acier (1927) and The Prodigal Son (1929).
	www.fortunecity.com /victorian/brambles/48/prodoc6a.html (1207 words)

	Prokofiev, Sergey (1891 - 1953)
		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 to children the instruments of the orchestra, with instruments or groups of instruments representing characters in the story.
		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.
		Chamber music by Prokofiev includes two sonatas for violin and piano, the second originally for flute and piano and revised by the composer, with the help of the violinist David Oistrakh.
	www.naxos.com /composer/prokofie.htm (595 words)

	Symphony No. 3 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Edward Elgar's Symphony No. 3 is a hypothetical work, elaborated from Elgar's sketches by the composer Anthony Payne in the 1990s, published as Edward Elgar: The Sketches for Symphony No. 3 Elaborated by Anthony Payne.
		Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 3, the Polish
		Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 3, the Eroica
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Symphony_No._3 (189 words)

	Prokofiev's vexing entry into the USA. Part 3
		On the 50th anniversary of the composer's death, the San Francisco Symphony under its Music Director Michael Tilson Thomas presented the only big-league all-Prokofiev Anniversary concert in the United States.
		In addition, the Third Symphony was a very apt choice for the San Francisco Symphony's celebration: the work's progenitor, The Fiery Angel, includes music intended for Prokofiev's "White Quartet," some of the very sounds that were going through his head as he arrived in America that cool but sunny day in August 1918.
		This time Prokofiev passed directly by Angel Island, which prompted him to recall the ordeal and the hospital into which he had been "exiled." Despite these unpleasant memories Prokofiev seems to have enjoyed visiting San Francisco, this city seemingly "on the other side of the world" from a Russian's point of view.
	www.sprkfv.net /journal/three06/vexing3.html (1340 words)

	Program Notes - Printer-Friendly
		SERGEI SERGEIEVICH PROKOFIEV was born in Sontsovka, in the Ekaterinoslav district of Ukraine, on April 23, 1891, and died in Moscow on March 5, 1953.
		Prokofiev began a Concertino for Violin in 1915, soon abandoned the project to concentrate on his Dostoyevsky opera The Gambler, returning to what became his Violin Concerto No. 1 in the summer of 1917.
		He composed his Symphony No. 1 in 1916-17, completing it on September 10 of the latter year.
	www.sfsymphony.org /templates/pgmNotePrint.asp?nodeid=3327 (2047 words)

	Pro Arte: Prokofiev; Classical Symphony, Opus 25
		This symphony is officially the Symphony No. 1 in D major of Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953), but the nickname "Classical" has taken hold so thoroughly that it is virtually never identified in the more formal way.
		The actual impetus to write the Classical Symphony came from Prokofiev's desire to compose an entire symphony without the use of a piano, which had been his constant aid in composition from his childhood improvisations to that time.
		Following youthful efforts at symphony writing both before and during his conserva-tory years, Prokofiev finally wrote the first symphony whose paternity he would acknowledge publicly in 1916, choosing to use the model of Haydn.
	www.proarte.org /notes/prokofiev3.htm (381 words)

	Guardian Unlimited The Guardian Other Classical releases
		It makes an ideal coupling having the Symphony No 4 alongside the ballet score from which Prokofiev drew most of the material.
		Prokofiev: Symphony No 4 (revised); The Prodigal Son ?
		Mendelssohn Symphony No 4 "Italian" (original and revised versions); No 5 "Reformation"
	www.guardian.co.uk /friday_review/story/0,3605,296679,00.html (543 words)

	Musical Forms - Symphony
		Several symphonies, notably no.4, involve the cyclic recall of themes; this may be connected with the programmatic content that he is believed to have followed and which no doubt (his programmes were not generally disclosed) governs the unorthodox use of a slow despairing finale to his last symphony, no.6 ('Pathétique').
		But among 20th-century composers of international stature, perhaps only Shostakovich, whose symphonies range from the political manifesto (nos.2 and 3), the heroic and sometimes programmatic (nos.7 and 10-12) to the bitterly ironic (nos.13 and 14), has found in the symphony a natural vehicle for his most challenging and original music.
		Lalo's Symphony and Saint-Saëns's Third also show Liszt's influence in their style and the use of thematic transformation, and Franck's d Minor Symphony, although non-programmatic, goes further in that direction.
	w3.rz-berlin.mpg.de /cmp/g_symphony.html (1225 words)

	turlish.html
		Symphony No. 2: This symphony is Prokofiev's least known and one of his most inventive.
		Symphony No. 4: This is Prokofiev's most lyrical symphony and the least known after the second symphony.
		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.
	www.kith.org /jimmosk/turlish.html (2167 words)

	Naxos.com, Your World of Classical Music
		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 to children the instruments of the orchestra, with instruments or groups of instruments representing characters in the story.
		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.
		Chamber music by Prokofiev includes two sonatas for violin and piano, the second originally for flute and piano and revised by the composer, with the help of the violinist David Oistrakh.
	www.naxos.com /mainsite?pn=Composers&char=P&ComposerID=827 (825 words)

	Amazon.com: Dmitri Shostakovich:Symphony No. 10/Ballet Suite No. 4: Music
		Shostakovich: Symphony No. 4 in C minor, Op.
		The heart of this symphony lies in its second movement, a tiny four-minute whirlwind of a piece that the composer claimed represents the malevolent evil of Joseph Stalin.
		The 10th is, arguably, the composer's greatest symphony, and this is also the greatest performance in Järvi's generally impressive Shostakovich cycle.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000000AHN?v=glance (1155 words)

	Prokofiev.org - Symphony No 4 in C major (rev 1947) Op.112
		Prokofiev: Symphony no 4, The Prodigal Son / Kuchar
		Prokofiev: The 7 Symphonies / Ozawa, Berlin Philharmonic
		Prokofiev: Symphonies / Kosler / Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
	www.prokofiev.org /catalog/work.cfm?WorkID=142 (411 words)

	>Sergei Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 4 for the Left Hand
		We enter the fashionable world of the Stravinskiian Neoclassical almost immediately and it is easy to recall two of Prokofiev's earlier works, the "Classical" Symphony No. 1 and the brisk, one-movement First Concerto.
		Thoughtful and measured, the Andante is the finest Prokofiev slow movement to date, foreshadowing in its patient construction of intensity the great third movement of the Fifth Symphony.
		>Sergei Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 4 for the Left Hand
	www.americansymphony.org /dialogues_extensions/2002_03season/2003_4_11/prokofiev.cfm (409 words)

	Sergei Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No.3
		The Concerto immediately found favour, and Prokofiev used it during his first return to Russia (performing with the conductorless orchestra Persimfans on 24 January 1927) as well as for his only concerto recording, with the London Symphony Orchestra in 1933.
		Its theme manages to be unmistakably a Gavotte at the same time as totally disregarding the middle-of-the-bar emphasis which is supposed to define that dance (the famous Gavotte of Prokofiev's "Classical" Symphony is similarly maverick).
		Prokofiev completed the Third Concerto on holiday at St. Brevin-les-Pins in Brittany in 1921, just after the successful performances of his ballet score Chout (The fool) and The Love for Three Oranges.
	www.geocities.com /Vienna/1891/op26.html (365 words)

	Sergei Prokofiev's Symphony No.3
		The whispering scherzo was inspired, as Prokofiev admitted, by the brief, unforgettable finale of Chopin's B flat minor Sonata.
		The Third Symphony (1928) was based on the opera The Fiery Angel (1922-25).
		The material of the symphony's first movement is based on themes connected with Renata, her obsession and the thwarted devotion of Ruprecht, who is in love with her.
	www.geocities.com /Vienna/1891/op44.html (400 words)

	Musical Forms - Symphony
		Several symphonies, notably no.4, involve the cyclic recall of themes; this may be connected with the programmatic content that he is believed to have followed and which no doubt (his programmes were not generally disclosed) governs the unorthodox use of a slow despairing finale to his last symphony, no.6 ('Pathétique').
		But among 20th-century composers of international stature, perhaps only Shostakovich, whose symphonies range from the political manifesto (nos.2 and 3), the heroic and sometimes programmatic (nos.7 and 10-12) to the bitterly ironic (nos.13 and 14), has found in the symphony a natural vehicle for his most challenging and original music.
		Lalo's Symphony and Saint-Saëns's Third also show Liszt's influence in their style and the use of thematic transformation, and Franck's d Minor Symphony, although non-programmatic, goes further in that direction.
	w3.rz-berlin.mpg.de /cmp/g_symphony.html (1225 words)

	ON DEATH'S ANNIVERSARY, PROKOFIEV SPRINGS TO LIFE
		And it was not the usual Prokofiev standards, either---not the Classical Symphony nor No. 5, nor a suite from the "Romeo and Juliet" ballet.
		The San Francisco Symphony under Michael Tilson Thomas gave an overdue reprieve (one would hope, not temporary) to the composer, devoting an all-Prokofiev week of concerts that began precisely on that fateful March 5th.
		It was MTT being innovative and imaginative, with the Symphony No. 3, the obscure "American Overture," and the tuneful Piano Concerto No. 3 as the one audience hook.
	www.artssf.com /sfs0563.html (740 words)

	:: INKPOT - Philip Glass - Symphonies No. 2 and 3 - Marin Alsop
		The Third Symphony, which was written in 1994, is very unlike the Glass most audiences would know from his previous works (which some commentators have described, rather unfairly, as being similar and repetitious to a fault).
		The truth is, the ostinato arpeggios and Alberti bass-lines one hears in Glass is no different, note for note, from what you'd find in a Haydn symphony or Mozart concerto, only that in Glass, they aren't used to support melody but allowed to speak for themselves.
		The symphonies here are presented in reverse order, with the shorter Third Symphony (almost by half) presented first, although it has four movements to the Second Symphony's three and is scored for a chamber orchestra of just nineteen string players.
	inkpot.com /classical/naxglasssym23ben.html (929 words)

	Symphony No. 3
		A good example of a 'focused' section in the Third Symphony is in the first movement - between E1 to F1 - where the timpani and lower strings unfold the 'diminished seventh' - the pitches of which you described above - culminating on a D minor chord.
		And there was a very wonderful revelation, I remember, of a very early performance on the radio of Symphony No.3; and there were recordings available - I had the old 1939 ~was it?) of the Vienna Phil doing Symphony 9, and the '38 one of Das Lied von der Erde.
		You've said that the counterpoint is reduced in the Third Symphony so that the musical surface is a lot easier to understand and less difficult to come to terms with than, say, the 'Second Taverner Fantasia' or the First Symphony.
	www.maxopus.com /essays/symph_3.htm (4729 words)

	Symphony No. 3 (Prokofiev)
		The Symphony No. 3 in C minor, opus 44, by Sergei Prokofiev dates from 1928.
		The piece occupies a middle ground among Prokofiev's seven symphonies in terms of popularity, not as well-known as the Symphony No. 1 (the Classical), but not so neglected as the Symphony No. 2 or first version of the Symphony No. 4.
		Though the music of the symphony is based on that of the opera, the symphony is an abstract piece, not telling any particular story.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/symphony_no__3__prokofiev_ (253 words)

	tns3645.html
		March 5: Seventh Prokofiev: Piano Sonata No. 7 A. August: an agitprop memorandum January-February: NKVD renamed Symphony premiered in Khachaturian: Gayane (ballet) to the Central Committee claims NKGB under Beria.
		January 23-30: Symphony No. 5 in D minor, Ivanovs: Symphony No. 3 Knipper: conformist Ode to Stalin.
		May 20: finishes Lyatoshinsky: Symphony No. 2 endorsing the trend towards August 19-24: show-trial of the Symphony No. 4 in C minor, falsification of the past.
	www.siue.edu /~aho/musov/shoschron/tns3645.html (1851 words)

	Amazon.com: Kun Woo Paik ~ Prokofiev - Piano Concertos, No. 1, Op. 10 · No. 3, Op. 26 · No. 4, Op. 53 / Polish NRSO · Wit: Music
		These recordings of the Prokofiev 1st, 2nd and 3rd piano concertos, along with the other Naxos recording of the 2nd and 5th concertos, are remarkably high quality, not just for a budget label but in absolute terms.
		The Piano Sonatas of Sergey Prokofiev (1891-1953): A list by C.
		Buy this album with Prokofiev: Piano Sonatas, Vol.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0000013U1?v=glance (1148 words)

	Prokofiev's Symphony No.4
		There are two versions of the Prokofiev Symphony No.
		Prokofiev, freshly stung from missing a crucial deadline with the Städtische Oper in Berlin for his opera, The Fiery Angel (which cost him the opportunity of seeing the work staged in his lifetime), was not about to become a victim of the clock again.
		3, he and his forces are again superb--elegant and not overly fleet in the former, gripping and powerful in the latter.
	www.fortunecity.com /victorian/brambles/48/prodoc6c.html (786 words)

	Program Notes
		SERGEI SERGEIEVICH PROKOFIEV was born in Sontsovka, in the Ekaterinoslav district of Ukraine, on April 23, 1891, and died in Moscow on March 5, 1953.
		Prokofiev began a Concertino for Violin in 1915, soon abandoned the project to concentrate on his Dostoyevsky opera The Gambler, returning to what became his Violin Concerto No. 1 in the summer of 1917.
		Prokofiev remarks that his "lyric line"—and he cites the opening of the First Violin Concerto as an instance—was “not noticed until late.
	www.sfsymphony.org /templates/router.asp?callid=117&nodeid=3327 (2056 words)

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