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Prokofiev: A Biography - From Russia to the West, 1891-1935 (Hardcover)
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Prokofiev: A Biography - From Russia to the West, 1891-1935 (Hardcover)
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This book, the first in-depth biography of Prokofiev since 1987 and
the most detailed yet written, is based on fresh discoveries and
new archival material. Since 1991-the year that marked both the
fall of the Soviet Union and the centenary of Sergey and birth-a
new assessment of the renowned composer's life and work has become
both possible and necessary. In this engrossing book, David Nice
draws on a remarkable range of previously unexamined sources to
present that reassessment. The book follows Prokofiev's personal
and musical progression from his childhood on a Ukrainian country
estate to the years he spent traveling in America and Europe as an
acclaimed interpreter of his own works. Nice sheds new light on
Prokofiev's early years at the St. Petersburg Conservatoire, his
departure from Russia in 1918 for what he thought would be a short
tour of America, and his marriage and family relationships. He
considers the music of Prokofiev's years in the west (long
dismissed by Soviet musicologists as decadent work weakened by the
composer's absence from the motherland), moving from the lyricism
of his St. Petersburg years to the fresh simplicity of his early
Soviet scores. Nice also examines the complex reasons which led
Prokofiev to move his family to the Soviet Union in 1936. A second
volume will cover Prokofiev's life from this period to his death in
1952.
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