An assessment of the life and work of renowned composer, Sergey Prokofiev, in which David Nice draws on a range of sources. The text follows Prokofiev's personal and musical progression from his childhood on a Ukrainian country estate to the years he spent travelling in America and Europe as an acclaimed interpreter of his own works. Nice sheds light on Prokofiev's early years at the St Petersburg Conservatoire, his departure from Russia in 1918 for what he thought would be a short tour of America, and his marriage and family relationships. He considers the music of Prokofiev's years in the West (long dismissed by Soviet musicologists as decadent work weakened by the composer's absence from the motherland), moving from the lyricism of his St Petersburg years to the fresh simplicity of his early Soviet scores. Nice also examines the complex reasons which led Prokofiev to move his family to the Soviet Union in 1936. A second volume will cover Prokofiev's life from this period to his death in 1953.
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David Nice is a writer, broadcaster, and lecturer on music, and author of books on Elgar, Tchaikovsky and Richard Strauss.
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New York, The Gambler, Marya Grigoryevna, Scythian Suite, Soviet Union, Third Symphony, Second Piano Concerto, Third Piano Concerto, Classical Symphony, The Rite of Spring, Ballets Russes, Sergey Alexeyevich, Aunt Tanya, Fata Morgana, Maryinsky Theatre, Richard Strauss, Fourth Symphony, Second Concerto, Boris Godunov, First Violin Concerto, Hebrew Themes, The Firebird, Christian Science, Eleonora Damskaya, Moscow Conservatory New!
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- The Love for Three Oranges (Musical Stories series) by Sergei Prokofiev on 34 pages
- The Rite of Spring (Dover Miniature Music Scores) by Igor Stravinsky on 14 pages
- Sergei Prokofiev: A Biography by Harlow Robinson on 5 pages
- Eugene Onegin: English National Opera Guide 38 (English National Opera Guides) by Tchaikovsky on 4 pages
- The Queen of Spades (Pique Dame): Vocal Score (G. Schirmer Opera Score Editions) by Newmarch on page 23, page 31, and page 121
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