Sergey Prokofiev, 20th-century Russian composer who wrote in a wide range of musical genres, including symphonies, concerti, and operas. Among his best-known works were scores for the ballet Romeo and Juliet (1936), the children’s tale Peter and the Wolf (1936), and Sergey Eisenstein’s film Alexander Nevsky (1938).
KTLA: Peter Sellars’ staging of Prokofiev’s `The Gambler’ is Salzburg Festival’s latest offbeat success
Peter Sellars’ staging of Prokofiev’s `The Gambler’ is Salzburg Festival’s latest offbeat success
Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev[n 2] (27 April [O.S. 15 April] 1891 – 5 March 1953) [n 3] was a Russian [n 4] composer, pianist, and conductor who later worked in the Soviet Union. [11] As the creator of acknowledged masterpieces across numerous music genres, he is regarded as one of the major composers of the 20th century. His works include such widely heard pieces as the March from The Love ...
He rivals Dimitri Shostakovich as the most important Russian composer of the 20th century. Yet Sergey Prokofiev didn't always seem typical composer fare. While on his final tour of the US in 1938, Prokofiev gave an interview to the New York Times. The reporter described his ‘cool and pleasantly untemperamental manner of address’, which ‘bespoke the industrial executive rather than the ...
Sergey Prokofiev: revolutionary composer who gave us some of the 20th ...
Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953) was a Russian composer (born in Ukraine) who was at the forefront of the Modernist music movement. His symphonies, orchestral suites, and ballets display endless variety...
Sergei Prokofiev is one of the most beloved composers in the Russian tradition. Tchaikovsky is probably the most beloved, but he belonged to a generation that privileged accessibility and sentiment, whereas Prokofiev was a hard-edged modernist.