Sergei Prokofiev wrote his Symphony No. 2 in D minor, Op. 40, in Paris in 1924-25, during what he called "nine months of frenzied toil". He characterized...
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Sergei Prokofiev wrote his Symphony No. 5 in B-flat major, Op. 100, in the Soviet Union in one month[citation needed] in the summer of 1944. From 1925...
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The Symphony No. 1 in D major, Op. 25, also known as the Classical, was Sergei Prokofiev's first numbered symphony. He began to compose it in 1916 and...
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Prokofiev's Symphony No. 7 in C-sharp minor, Op. 131, was completed in 1952, the year before his death. It is his last symphony. Most of the symphony...
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Sergei Prokofiev wrote his Symphony No. 3 in C minor, Op. 44, in 1928. The music derives from Prokofiev's opera The Fiery Angel, a touching love story...
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Sergei Prokofiev's Symphony No. 4 is actually two works, both using material created for The Prodigal Son ballet. The first, Op. 47, was completed in...
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The Symphony No. 6 in E-flat minor, Op. 111, by Sergei Prokofiev was completed and premiered in 1947. Sketches for the symphony exist as early as from...
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Sergei Prokofiev's Symphony-Concerto in E minor, Op. 125 (also widely referred to as Sinfonia Concertante) is a large-scale work for cello and orchestra...
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1979–80 Symphony No. 2 (Piston) by Walter Piston, 1943 Symphony No. 2 (Prokofiev) in D minor (Op. 40) by Sergei Prokofiev, 1924–25 Symphony No. 2 (Rachmaninoff)...
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Sergei Prokofiev set to work on his Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Op. 16, in 1912 and completed it the next year. However, that version of the concerto...
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had no difficulty in agreeing on the changes." Prokofiev 2000, p. 56 It has been suggested that Prokofiev's use of text from Stravinsky's Symphony of Psalms...
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Philharmonic, Seattle Symphony, Detroit Symphony, MDR Leipzig, Buenos Aires Philharmonic and Royal Seville Symphony Orchestra. Gabriel Prokofiev was born in London...
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The Violin Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Op. 63, written in 1935 by Sergei Prokofiev, is a work in three movements: Allegro moderato Andante assai Allegro...
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Sergei Prokofiev's Lieutenant Kijé (Russian: Поручик Киже, Poruchik Kizhe) music was originally written to accompany the film of the same name, produced...
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Sergei Prokofiev's String Quartet No. 2 in F Major, Op. 92 (1941) was first performed by the Beethoven Quartet in Moscow on 7 April 1942. A later concert...
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Джульетта, romanized: Romeo i Dzhulyetta), Op. 64, is a ballet by Sergei Prokofiev based on William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet. First composed in...
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Alexander Nevsky (Russian: Александр Невский) is the score composed by Sergei Prokofiev for Sergei Eisenstein's 1938 film Alexander Nevsky. The subject of the...
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Sergei Prokofiev began his Violin Concerto No. 1 in D major, Op. 19, as a concertino in 1915 but soon abandoned it to work on his opera The Gambler. He...
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Concerto No. 3 in C major, Op. 26, is a piano concerto by Sergei Prokofiev. It was completed in 1921 using sketches first started in 1913. Prokofiev began...
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Peter and the Wolf (redirect from Peter and the Wolf (Prokofiev))
In 1936, Prokofiev was commissioned by Natalya Sats, the director of the Central Children's Theatre in Moscow, to write a musical symphony for children...
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assigned this number include: Beethoven – String Quartet No. 15 Hovhaness – Symphony No. 2 Prokofiev – Cello Concertino Reger – Variations and Fugue on a...
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closed his String Quartet No. 3. Prokofiev and Myaskovsky worked together at the conservatory on at least one work, a lost symphony, parts of which were later...
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Prokofiev. Researchers also see a reference to the work of Karol Szymanowski in the Kilar's Symphony No. 2. Due to its monumental nature, Symphony No...
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list of musical compositions by the 20th-century Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev. The Giant (1900) On Desert Islands (1900; unfinished) A Feast in Time...
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the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Nicholas Urie, Quintet. Prokofiev – Chamber Music Prokofiev – List of Compositions Becker, Samuel. "Prokofiev: Trapeze"...
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Latino with Juan Diego Flórez (Decca) Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 in E. Minor, Opus 64 Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf (Michael York, narrator) The Composers...
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San Francisco Symphony and its conductor Michael Tilson Thomas. In February 2013, Wang performed and recorded Prokofiev's Concerto No. 2 and Rachmaninoff's...
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Mozart (No. 2, 1775, No. 4, 1775); Ludwig van Beethoven (1806); Paganini (No. 1, 1817); Brahms (1878); Tchaikovsky (1878); Prokofiev (No. 1, 1917); Stravinsky...
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style, with prominent examples being Sergei Prokofiev's Symphony No. 1 "Classical" of 1916–17 and the Symphony in C by Igor Stravinsky of 1938–40. There...
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for that reason is unlikely to become popular". The symphony was criticized by Sergei Prokofiev and others at a Composers' Plenum in March 1944, and...
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