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Prokofiev, Sergei

Sergei Prokofiev

Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev was a Soviet composer, pianist and conductor. As the creator of acknowledged masterpieces across numerous musical genres, he is regarded as one of the major composers of the 20th century. His works include such widely heard works as the March from The Love for Three Oranges, the suite Lieutenant Kijé, the ballet Romeo and Juliet – from which "Dance of the Knights" is taken – and Peter and the Wolf. Of the established forms and genres in which he worked, he created – excluding juvenilia – seven completed operas, seven symphonies, eight ballets, five piano concertos, two violin concertos, a cello concerto, a Symphony-Concerto for cello and orchestra, and nine completed piano sonatas.




A graduate of the St Petersburg Conservatory, Prokofiev initially made his name as an iconoclastic composer-pianist, achieving notoriety with a series of ferociously dissonant and virtuosic works for his instrument, including his first two piano concertos. In 1915 Prokofiev made a decisive break from the standard composer-pianist category with his orchestral Scythian Suite, compiled from music originally composed for a ballet commissioned by Sergei Diaghilev of the Ballets Russes. Diaghilev commissioned three further ballets from Prokofiev – Chout, Le pas d'acier and The Prodigal Son – which at the time of their original production all caused a sensation among both critics and colleagues. Prokofiev's greatest interest, however, was opera, and he composed several works in that genre, including The Gambler and The Fiery Angel. Prokofiev's one operatic success during his lifetime was The Love for Three Oranges, composed for the Chicago Opera and subsequently performed over the following decade in Europe and Russia.

After the Revolution, Prokofiev left Russia with the official blessing of the Soviet minister Anatoly Lunacharsky, and resided in the United States, then Germany, then Paris, making his living as a composer, pianist and conductor. During that time he married a Spanish singer, Carolina Codina, with whom he had two sons. In the early 1930s, the Great Depression diminished opportunities for Prokofiev's ballets and operas to be staged in America and western Europe. Prokofiev, who regarded himself as composer foremost, resented the time taken by touring as a pianist, and increasingly turned to Soviet Russia for commissions of new music; in 1936 he finally returned to his homeland with his family. He enjoyed some success there – notably with Lieutenant Kijé, Peter and the Wolf, Romeo and Juliet, and perhaps above all with Alexander Nevsky.

The Nazi invasion of the USSR spurred him to compose his most ambitious work, an operatic version of Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace. In 1948 Prokofiev was attacked for producing "anti-democratic formalism." Nevertheless, he enjoyed personal and artistic support from a new generation of Russian performers, notably Sviatoslav Richter and Mstislav Rostropovich: he wrote his ninth piano sonata for the former and his Symphony-Concerto for the latter.


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Alexandre Nevsky
CDMPO4400 Alexandre Nevsky
Orchestra | Sergei Prokofiev | Chant du Monde | Orchestra | Score
€ 32,50
Sinfonia N. 5 Op.100
SIK2330 Sinfonia N. 5 Op.100
Orchestra | Sergei Prokofiev | Sikorski Edition | Score
€ 33,30
Peter And The Wolf
HL50486309 Peter And The Wolf
Concert Band | Sergei Prokofiev | G. Schirmer | Concert Band and Opt Narrator | Score
€ 9,30
Alexandre Nevsky
CDMVO4640 Alexandre Nevsky
Mixed Choir | Sergei Prokofiev | Chant du Monde | SATB | Score
€ 11,99
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HL50600878 March, Op. 99
Concert Band | Sergei Prokofiev | G. Schirmer | Concert Band | Score
€ 9,30
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HFB155SC Lieutenant Kiljé
Concert Band | Sergei Prokofiev | HAFABRA Music | Concert Band | Score
€ 58,90
Peter und der Wolf
HEI3899 Peter und der Wolf
Woodwind Ensemble | für Sopranino, SATB-Blockflöten | Sergei Prokofiev | Heinrichshofen Verlag | Recorder Quartet | Score
€ 8,70
Concertino
SIK2334 Concertino
Orchestra | Sergei Prokofiev | Sikorski Edition | Score
€ 21,30
Midnight Sleighride
HL40001033 Midnight Sleighride
Concert Band | Sergei Prokofiev | Arrangers' Publishing Company | Concert Band | Score
€ 12,60
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HL00294823 Dance of the Knights from Romeo and Juliet
Concert Band | Sergei Prokofiev | Southern Music Company | Symphonic Wind Band | Score
€ 10,40
The Enemy God and the Dance of the Spirits
DHP 0960683-140 The Enemy God and the Dance of the Spirits
Concert Band | Sergei Prokofiev | De Haske Publications | Concert Band/Harmonie | Score
€ 27,99
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CDMPH4432 Suite de Valses Op. 110
String Ensemble | Sergei Prokofiev | Chant du Monde | String Quartet | Score
€ 69,99
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BM545SC March from the Love for Three Oranges
Concert Band | Sergei Prokofiev | Baton Music | Concert Band | Score
€ 18,60
Troika
BHI77872 Troika
Orchestra | from Lieutenant Kije | Sergei Prokofiev | Boosey and Hawkes | String Orchestra | Score
€ 6,20
Troika
BHI66234 Troika
Concert Band | from Lieutenant Kije | Sergei Prokofiev | Boosey and Hawkes | Wind Band | Score
€ 6,70
Gavotte
BH83383 Gavotte
Orchestra | from the Classical Symphony op. 25 | Sergei Prokofiev | Boosey and Hawkes | Orchestra | Score
€ 10,20
Die Liebe zu drei Orangen op. 33
BH83380 Die Liebe zu drei Orangen op. 33
Orchestra | Marsch | Sergei Prokofiev | Boosey and Hawkes | Orchestra | Score
€ 10,20
Marsch Und Scherzo Aus Op33B
BH6400267 Marsch Und Scherzo Aus Op33B
Orchestra | Sergei Prokofiev | Boosey and Hawkes | Orchestra | Score
€ 63,70
Gavotte
BH6200910 Gavotte
Orchestra | from the Classical Symphony op. 25 | Sergei Prokofiev | Boosey and Hawkes | Orchestra | Score
€ 11,80
Gavotte
BH6200909 Gavotte
Orchestra | from the Classical Symphony op. 25 | Sergei Prokofiev | Boosey and Hawkes | Orchestra | Score
€ 9,20
Gavotte
BH4954 Gavotte
Orchestra | aus der Symphonie Classique op. 25 | Sergei Prokofiev | Boosey and Hawkes | Orchestra | Score
€ 11,30
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BARWACB11101 Athletic Festival March
Concert Band | Sergei Prokofiev | Barnhouse | Concert Band | Score
€ 8,90
Peter and the Wolf [Pierino ed il Lupo]
WKY0046SC Peter and the Wolf [Pierino ed il Lupo]
Concert Band | Sergei Prokofiev | Wicky Music | Narrator and Wind Orchestra | Score
€ 47,20
Overture In B-Flat Op. 42
TIEAMEROVERTURESC Overture In B-Flat Op. 42
Concert Band | American Overture | Sergei Prokofiev | Tierolff Muziekcentrale | Concert Band/Harmonie | Score
€ 36,80
Alexander Newski Op 78
SIK6182 Alexander Newski Op 78
Mixed Choir | Kantate Fur Mezzo Sopran Gemischten Chor Und Orchester | Sergei Prokofiev | Sikorski Edition | Soprano, Mixed Choir and Orchestra | Score
€ 24,60
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