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Sergei Prokofiev
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Sergei Prokofiev (Russian: Сергей Сергеевич Прокофьев, 1891 -1953) was a major Russian composer of the 20th century. Prokofiev was born in Sontsovka (now Krasne, Krasnoarmiisk Raion, Donetsk Oblast, eastern Ukraine), a remote rural estate in the Yekaterinoslav Governorate of the Russian Empire. Prokofiev took piano, theory, and composition lessons from Reinhold Glière, then enrolled at the St. Petersburg Conservatory when he was thirteen. He took theory with Anatoly Lyadov, orchestration with Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov, and became lifelong friends with Nikolai Myaskovsky. After graduating, he began performing in St. Petersburg and in Moscow, then in Western Europe, all the while writing more music. Prokofiev's earliest fame was as a pianist and composer for the piano, with works like the Sarcasms, op. 17 (1912-1914), and Visions fugitives, op. 22 (1915-1917), and his first few piano sonatas. He also wrote orchestral works, concertos, and operas, and talked to Sergei Diaghilev about producing ballets. The years immediately after the Revolution were spent in the U.S., where Prokofiev tried to follow Sergei Rachmaninov's lead and make his way as a pianist/composer. His commission for The Love for Three Oranges came from the Chicago Opera in 1919, but overall Prokofiev was disappointed by his American reception, and he returned to Europe in 1922. He married singer Lina Llubera in 1923, and the couple moved to Paris. He continued to compose on commission, meeting with mixed succe
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Dance of the Knights
129,9422Romeo and Juliet, Op. 64 / Act 1: Dance Of The Knights
120,7683Prokofiev: Romeo And Juliet, Op. 64, Act 1: Dance Of The Knights
91,4234Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet, Op. 64, Act 1, Scene 2: Dance of the Knights
73,9655Romeo and Juliet, Op. 64: No. 13 Dance of the Knights
60,8616Mercutio
60,3567Romeo and Juliet Suite No. 2 Montague and Capulets (Excerpt) Op. 64ter
50,9828Visions Fugitives, Op. 22: 1. Lentamente
49,9159Peter and the Wolf, Op. 67 (Without Narration): Peter in the meadow
46,77410Masks
43,426albums
Romeo and Juliet
Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet
Prokofiev: Romeo & Juliet
PROKOFIEV: Cinderella Suites / Scythian Suite
Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf, Op. 67 (Without Narration)
Visions Fugitives
Romeo and Juliet: Suite No. 2 Montague and Capulets (Excerpt) Op. 64ter
Alexander Nevsky
Prokofiev: Alexander Nevsky; Scythian Suite; Lieutenant Kijé
Prokofiev, S.: Cinderella Suite / Music for Children / Gavotta / Prelude
Prokofiev: Lieutenant Kije Suite / Andante / Osenneye / the Tale of the Stone Flower (Excerpts)
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