Serge Prokofieff and his World - Simon Morrison
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Sergey Prokofiev (1891-1953), arguably the most popular composer of the twentieth century, led a life of triumph and tragedy. The story of his prodigious childhood in tsarist Russia, maturation in the West, and rise and fall as a Stalinist-era composer is filled with unresolved questions. Sergey Prokofiev and His World probes beneath the surface of his career and contextualizes his contributions to music on both sides of the nascent Cold War divide. The book contains previously unknown documents from the Russian State Archive of Literature and Art in Moscow and the Prokofiev Estate in Paris. The literary notebook of the composer's mother, Mariya Grigoryevna, illuminates her involvement in his education and is translated in full, as are ninety-eight letters between the composer and his business partner, Levon Atovmyan. The collection also includes a translation of Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky's unperformed stage adaptation of Eugene Onegin, for which Prokofiev composed incidental music in 1936. The essays in the book range in focus from musical sketches to Kremlin decrees. The contributors explore Prokofiev's time in America; evaluate his working methods in the mid-1930s; document the creation of his score for the film Lieutenant Kizhe; tackle how and why Prokofiev rewrote his 1930 Fourth Symphony in 1947; detail his immortalization by Soviet bureaucrats, composers, and scholars; and examine Prokofiev's interest in Christian Science and the paths it opened for his music. The contributors are Mark Aranovsky, Kevin Bartig, Elizabeth Bergman, Leon Botstein, Pamela Davidson, Caryl Emerson, Marina Frolova-Walker, Nelly Kravetz, Leonid Maximenkov, Stephen Press, and Peter Schmelz.
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- Preface and Acknowledgments
- SIMON MORRISON
- Note on Transliteration, Dates, and Titles PART
- I: DOCUMENTS
- "Look After Your Son's Talents": 2
- The Literary Notebook of Mariya Prokofieva
- INTRODUCTORY ESSAY, COMMENTARY, AND TRANSLATION BY
- PAMELA DAVIDSON
- The Krzhizhanovsky-Prokofiev Collaboration on
- Eugene Onegin, 60
- 1936 (A Lesser-Known Casualty of the Pushkin Death
- Jubilee)
- INTRODUCTORY ESSAY, COMMENTARY, AND TRANSLATION BY
- CARYL EMERSON
- Prokofiev and Atovmyan: Correspondence, 1933-1952
- 190
- INTRODUCTION AND COMMENTARY BY NELLY KRAVETZ
- TRANSLATION BY SIMON MORRISON
- Prokofiev's Immortalization 285
- LEONID MAXIMENKOV PART II: ESSAYS
- "I Came Too Soon": Prokofiev's Early Career in
- America 334
- STEPHEN D. PRESS
- Lieutenant Kizhe: New Media, New Means 376
- KEVIN BARTIG
- Observations on Prokofiev's Sketchbooks 401
- MARK ARANOVSKY
- TRANSLATION BY JASON STRUDLER
- Prokofiev on the Los Angeles Limited 423
- ELIZABETH BERGMAN
- Between Two Aesthetics: The Revision of Pilnyak's
- Mahogany 452
- and Prokofiev's Fourth Symphony
- MARINA FROLOVA-WALKER
- After Prokofiev 493
- PETER J. SCHMELZ
- Beyond Death and Evil: Prokofiev's Spirituality
- and Christian Science 530
- LEON BOTSTEIN
- Permissions and Credits 562
- Index 563
- Notes on the Contributors 578
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580 pag.
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