Sergei Prokofiev Essay

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Sergei Prokofiev was an innovative composer born on the 23rd of April, 1891 in Sontsocka. His mother taught him piano and his father taught him to play chess when he was young. Both activities were major hobbies of his and allowed him to improve his intelligence. His studies were led by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and he graduated with some of the highest remarks of his class at St. Petersburg Conservatory (1914), and received a grand piano because of them. After the Russian revolution, he went on concert tours across Europe and the US. While in New York in 1918, he met a Spanish vocalist named Carolina Codina. They were married in 1923 and had two boys.
Prokofiev was a man of beaming optimism and was an open minded individual. He used “Sarcasms” to emphasize these …show more content…

Once they decided to move from Paris to Moscow the Soviets trick had worked. His wife was sent to a prison-camp in Siberia, all of his music created while he was outside of the Soviet Union was banned as it was seen as anti-Soviet, and Shostakovich wrote in his testimony that Prokofiev was “scared out of his wits”. Vsevolod Meyerhold, a friend director of Prokofiev was arrested and eventually executed by association.
Prokofiev life was saved by his second wife Mira Mendelson. His feelings were so strong with her that she inspired him to write powerful late symphonies. He also wrote the ninth piano sonata, a solo piano piece with four movements, for Svyatoslave Ritcher. In 1948, another attack on Prokofiev’s music affected him and many other composers and musicians including Anna Akhmatova, Aram Khacturayan, and Boris Pasternak. The attacks stopped after Joseph Stalin’s death in 1953. Prokofiev ironically died the same say and hour of Stalin on March 5 1953. An innovative, inspiring man died that day, and it wasn’t

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