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Author : Nathan Seinen
Release : 2019-09-05
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Prokofiev's Soviet Operas by : Nathan Seinen
Download or read book Prokofiev's Soviet Operas written by Nathan Seinen. This book was released on 2019-09-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a critical and contextual study of the last four operas of Prokofiev, the leading opera composer in Stalin's Soviet Union.
Author : Christina Guillaumier
Release : 2020
Genre : Music
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Book Rating : 482/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Operas of Sergei Prokofiev by : Christina Guillaumier
Download or read book The Operas of Sergei Prokofiev written by Christina Guillaumier. This book was released on 2020. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The operas of Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953) mark a significant contribution to twentieth-century music and theatre. Opera was Prokofiev's preferred genre; not counting juvenile and unfinished works, he wrote a total of eight. Yet, to date, little has been published about the context, rationale or musical and compositional processes behind this output. While systematic studies of Prokofiev's symphonies and his ballets exist, the operas have come under no such scrutiny. This book is the first in the English language to engage with the composer's operatic output in its entirety and provides a contextual, critical and musico-analytical account of all of Prokofiev's operas, including those juvenile works that are unpublished as well as the incomplete works composed towards the end of his life. It also includes synopses of the operas. Drawing on a wealth of archival material and other sources, the book provides the compelling untold story of Prokofiev the opera composer. CHRISTINA GUILLAUMIER is a music historian, pianist and writer on music. She is currently Head of Undergraduate Programmes at the Royal College of Music in London.
Author : Simon Morrison
Release : 2010-10-25
Genre : Music
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Book Rating : 983/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The People's Artist by : Simon Morrison
Download or read book The People's Artist written by Simon Morrison. This book was released on 2010-10-25. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sergey Prokofiev was one of the twentieth century's greatest composers--and one of its greatest mysteries. Until now. In The People's Artist, Simon Morrison draws on groundbreaking research to illuminate the life of this major composer, deftly analyzing Prokofiev's music in light of new archival discoveries. Indeed, Morrison was the first scholar to gain access to the composer's sealed files in the Russian State Archives, where he uncovered a wealth of previously unknown scores, writings, correspondence, and unopened journals and diaries. The story he found in these documents is one of lofty hopes and disillusionment, of personal and creative upheavals. Morrison shows that Prokofiev seemed to thrive on uncertainty during his Paris years, stashing scores in suitcases, and ultimately stunning his fellow emigrés by returning to Stalin's Russia. At first, Stalin's regime treated him as a celebrity, but Morrison details how the bureaucratic machine ground him down with corrections and censorship (forcing rewrites of such major works as Romeo and Juliet), until it finally censured him in 1948, ending his career and breaking his health.
Author : Stella Baty Landis
Release : 2007
Genre : Music
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Book Rating : 538/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Soviet Operas of Sergei Prokofiev by : Stella Baty Landis
Download or read book The Soviet Operas of Sergei Prokofiev written by Stella Baty Landis. This book was released on 2007. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In my introduction, I explore the concept of socialist realism, the official aesthetic system of the Soviet Union. Socialist realism, often denounced as a terminally restrictive doctrine, in fact comprised a complex and open-ended set of aesthetic ideals that, intentionally or not, raised as many possibilities as they suppressed.
Author : Sergey Prokofiev
Release : 1992
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Synopsis Soviet Diary, 1927, and Other Writings by : Sergey Prokofiev
Download or read book Soviet Diary, 1927, and Other Writings written by Sergey Prokofiev. This book was released on 1992. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A recently (1989) discovered diary of the Russian composer's two-month visit to his native Soviet Union in 1927. Also includes five short stories and his Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.
