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2 de mar. de 2023 · He’d produced the symphonic tale for children, Peter and the Wolf, in 1936 and two years later Sergei Eisenstein’s epic film Alexander Nevsky was released with a soundtrack by Prokofiev.Knowing that Dmitri Shostakovich, his main rival as the USSR’s foremost composer, had at the beginning of 1936 fallen foul of the Stalin regime will also have buoyed Prokofiev, his high opinion of himself ...
Russian composer and pianist Sergei Prokofiev was born in 1891 in Sontsovka, a small village in Ukraine. Early on, it was clear that he had musical talent. His mother, who was a very good pianist, encouraged him, and taught him to play the piano. Sergei began composing at the age of five.
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Nikolay Cherkasov as Aleksander Nevsky. Alexander Nevsky (Russian: Александр Невский) is the score composed by Sergei Prokofiev for Sergei Eisenstein's 1938 film Alexander Nevsky.The subject of the film is the 13th century incursion of the knights of the Livonian Order into the territory of the Novgorod Republic, their capture of the city of Pskov, the summoning of Prince ...
21 de dic. de 2019 · The Kijé suite was one of the first of its kind, so the composer had to ensure that it would appeal to Soviet audiences potentially hearing concert music for the first time: “Above all, it must be melodious; moreover the melody must be simple and comprehensible without being repetitive or trivial…The simplicity should not be an old-fashioned simplicity but a new simplicity.”
5 de mar. de 2023 · Two of the twentieth century’s most brilliant composers, Sergei Prokofiev and Dmitri Shostakovich, produced some of their best work in the shadow of Joseph Stalin’s dictatorship. Like so many Soviet writers and filmmakers, they attracted the ire of Stalin’s cultural commissars, precisely because of their creativity.
Sergei Prokofiev: A Biography traces the career of one of the most significant — and most popular — composers of the twentieth century. Using materials from previously closed archives in the USSR, from archives in Paris and London, and interviews with family members and musicians who knew and worked with Prokofiev, the biography illuminates the life and music of the prolific creator of ...
