Composer Biography Prokofiev

I hate imitation, I hate beaten tricks can be as long as you like, but you must certainly from time to time to return to your homeland for a real Russian spirit. Prokofiev’s childhood years of the future composer took place in a musical family.

His mother was a good pianist, and the boy, falling asleep, often heard the coming from afar, for several rooms, the sounds of the sonata L. when Serezhe was 5 years old, he composed the first play for the piano. He met his children's composer experiments in the city of Taneyev, and on his advice, the lessons of the composition at R. in GG began. Prokofiev studied at the St. Petersburg Conservatory with N.

Rimsky-Korsakov instrumentation, Y. Viles Musical form, A. Lyadova composition, A. Esipova Piano. At the final exam, Prokofiev spoke his first concert with brilliance, for which he was awarded the prize. The young composer eagerly absorbs new trends of music and soon finds his own path of the innovator musician. Speaking as a pianist, Prokofiev often included his own works in his programs, causing a violent reaction of the listeners.

In the city, trying to win a world audience, he concerts a lot, writes large works - operas “Love for Three Oranges”, “Fiery Angel”; The ballets “Steel Skok”, inspired by revolutionary events in Russia, “Prodigal Son”, “On the Dnieper”; instrumental music. At the beginning and at the end of G. Prokofiev, with great success, performs in the Soviet Union. Reception in Leningrad was even hot than in Moscow, ”wrote the composer in an autobiography.

At the end of G., Prokofiev decides to return to his homeland. From the middle of the x. He creates one of his masterpieces - the ballet "Romeo and Juliet" according to V. Shakespeare; The lyric-comic opera “Briefing in the monastery” “Duenya”, according to R. Sheridan-; Kantata "Alexander Nevsky" and "Health"; a symphonic fairy tale on its own text "Petya and the Wolf" with testing tools; Sixth sonata for piano; The cycle of piano plays "Children's Music" in E Gg.

Golovanov, E. Gilels, B. Sofronitsky, S. Richter, D. The highest achievement of Soviet choreography was the image of Juliet created in the summer of G. Kirova Ballet Skazka "Cinderella". The news of the war with fascist Germany and subsequent tragic events caused a new creative rise in the composer. He creates the grandiose heroic-patriotic epiro-epire “War and Peace” based on the novel by L.

Tolstoy, with the director C. Eisenstein works on the historical film “Ivan the Terrible”, a reflections of military events and at the same time indomitable will and energy are characteristic of the seventh sonata for the piano The fifth symphony, in which the composer, according to him, wanted to "sing a free and happy person, his powerful forces, his nobility, his spiritual purity." In the post-war period, despite a serious illness, Prokofiev creates many significant works: the sixth and seventh symphonies, the ninth piano sonata, the new edition of the opera “War and Peace”, the cellular sonata and the symphony-concert for the cello with the orchestra.

One of the main formalists in music was Prokofiev. Prokofiev spent the public shelter of his music in the last years of his life at the cottage in the village of Nikolina Horus among his beloved Russian nature, he continued to compose continuously, violating the prohibitions of doctors. The difficult circumstances of life affected creativity. Along with genuine masterpieces, among the works of recent years, works of “Simplified concept” are found - the overture “Meeting of the Volga with the Don”, the oratorio “On the Fight of the World”, the suite “Winter Bonfire”, some pages of the ballet “The Tale of the Stone Flower”, the Seventh Symphony.

Prokofiev died on the same day with Stalin, and the wires of the great Russian composer on the last journey were obscured by popular excitement in connection with the funerals of the great leader of the peoples. The style of Prokofiev, whose work covers the 4th and a half decades of the rapid XX century. Prokofiev paved the ways of the new music of our century along with other innovators of the beginning of the century - K.

Bartok, A. Skryabin, I. Stravinsky, composers of the Novovensky school. He entered the art as a daring overthrow of the dilapidated canons of late -romantic art with its exquisite sophistication. It is peculiarly developing the traditions of M. Mussorgsky, A. Borodin, Prokofiev introduced unbridled energy, onslaught, dynamism, the freshness of the pristine forces, perceived as “barbarism” “obsession” and tokkat for piano, “sarcasm”; Symphony "Scythian suite" on the ballet "Ala and Lolli"; The first and second piano concerts.

Prokofiev’s music echoes the innovations of other Russian musicians, poets, painters, and theater figures. Mayakovsky about one of the performance of Prokofiev. The dull and juicy Russian-Derevensky imagery through the prism of the exquisite aesthetics is characteristic of the ballet “A fairy tale about the jester, seven jesting” based on fairy tales from collection A.Relatively rare at that time lyricism; In Prokofiev, he is deprived of sensitivity and sensitivity - he is shy, gentle, delicate “fleeting”, “fairy tales of the old grandmother” for the piano.

Brightness, variegated, increased expression are typical for the style of a foreign fifteen anniversary. This is spraying with fun, enthusiasm of the opera "Love for three oranges" according to K.'s tale Gozzi "glass of champagne", by the definition of A. Lunacharsky; A magnificent third concert with his cheerful motor pressure, shaded by a wonderful pierce tank of the beginning of 1 teaspoon of Bryusov; heroic power and scope of the second symphony; “Cubatic” urbanism of “steel lope”; The lyrical introspection of “thoughts” and “things in yourself” for the piano.

The style of the period of the x The composer strives for universal ideas and themes, generalizing images of history, bright, realistically-concrete musical characters. This line of creativity in E GG was especially deepened. The disclosure of the values ​​of the human spirit, deep artistic generalizations become the main desire of Prokofiev: “I adhere to the conviction that the composer, like the poet, sculptor, painter, is designed to serve man and people.

He must sing human life and lead a person to a bright future. Such is from my point of view an unshakable art code. ” Prokofiev left a huge creative heritage - 8 operas; 7 ballets; 7 symphonies; 9 piano sonata; 5 piano concerts of them are the fourth - for one left hand; 2 violin, 2 cellular concerts of the second-a symphony-concert; 6 cantata; oratorio; 2 vocal-symphonic suits; a lot of piano plays; Plays for the orchestra in v.

Akhmatova, K. Balmont, A. Pushkin, N. Agnivtseva and others. The work of Prokofiev has received worldwide recognition. The enduring value of his music is in spiritual generosity and kindness, in commitment to high humanistic ideas, in the wealth of the artistic expressiveness of his works.