Audiences have long enjoyed Sergei Prokofievs musical score for
Sergei Eisensteins 1938 film Alexander Nevsky. The historical epic
cast a thirteenth-century Russian victory over invading Teutonic
Knights as an allegory of contemporary Soviet strength in the face
of Nazi warmongering. Prokofievs and Eisensteins work proved an
enormous success, both as a collaboration of two of the twentieth
centurys most prominent artists and as a means to bolster
patriotism and national pride among Soviet audiences. Arranged as a
cantata for concert performance, Prokofievs music for Alexander
Nevsky music proved malleable, its meaning reconfigured to suit
different circumstances and times. Author Kevin Bartig draws on
previously unexamined archival materials to follow Prokofievs
Alexander Nevsky from its inception through the present day. He
considers the musics genesis as well as the surprisingly different
ways it has engaged listeners over the past eighty years, from its
beginnings as state propaganda in the 1930s to showpiece for
high-fidelity recording in the 1950s to open-air concert favorite
in the post-Soviet 1990s.
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