Sergei Prokofiev : a biography / by Harlow Robinson 6

By: Robinson, Harlow 4 0 16, [, ] | [, ] |
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Language: Unknown language code Summary language: Unknown language code Original language: Unknown language code Series: ; New York : Paragon House Publishers, [1987]46Edition: Description: 23 cm. xiv, 573 pagesContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 1557780099ISSN: 2Other title: 6 []Uniform titles: | | Related works: 1 40 6 []Subject(s): -- 2 -- 0 -- -- | -- 2 -- 0 -- 6 -- | 2 0 -- | -- -- 20 -- | | -- -- Soviet Union; Biography. Prokofiev, Sergey, 1891-1953.;Composers -- -- -- | -- -- -- 20 -- --Genre/Form: -- 2 -- Additional physical formats: DDC classification: | LOC classification: | | 2Other classification:
Contents:
Seryozhenka -- Harmony and revolution -- The bad boy of Russian music -- Free artist -- Out in the world -- Battle of the pianos -- Let us be like the sun -- Fugitive visions -- America -- A Scythian in Paris -- Ettal -- A tale of three Serges -- The prodigal on tour -- Choses en soi -- Our musical advance post -- A new simplicity -- From Macy's to Moscow -- Lessons in Soviet reality -- Mira -- Behind the lines -- Swan -- Before the storm -- Under fire -- My soul hurts.
Action note: In: Summary: The prolific creator of such classic popular works as Romeo and Juliet, Peter and the Wolf, and Cinderella, Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953) was one of the most important and influential composers of the twentieth century. Drawing on unprecedented access to previously unknown or unavailable Russian-language sources, including extensive archival material, Harlow Robinson traces Prokofiev's extraordinary life from the fairy-tale world of Czarist Russia, through his many years abroad in America and Europe, to his perplexing permanent return to Moscow in 1936 under the Soviet Regime. That Prokofiev died on the very day as Josef Stalin, his principal persecutor, was the final irony of his intense and enigmatic career Other editions:
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Seryozhenka -- Harmony and revolution -- The bad boy of Russian music -- Free artist -- Out in the world -- Battle of the pianos -- Let us be like the sun -- Fugitive visions -- America -- A Scythian in Paris -- Ettal -- A tale of three Serges -- The prodigal on tour -- Choses en soi -- Our musical advance post -- A new simplicity -- From Macy's to Moscow -- Lessons in Soviet reality -- Mira -- Behind the lines -- Swan -- Before the storm -- Under fire -- My soul hurts.

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The prolific creator of such classic popular works as Romeo and Juliet, Peter and the Wolf, and Cinderella, Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953) was one of the most important and influential composers of the twentieth century. Drawing on unprecedented access to previously unknown or unavailable Russian-language sources, including extensive archival material, Harlow Robinson traces Prokofiev's extraordinary life from the fairy-tale world of Czarist Russia, through his many years abroad in America and Europe, to his perplexing permanent return to Moscow in 1936 under the Soviet Regime. That Prokofiev died on the very day as Josef Stalin, his principal persecutor, was the final irony of his intense and enigmatic career

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