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Sergey Prokofiev: Diaries 1907-1914 - Prodigious Youth (Paperback, Main)
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Sergey Prokofiev: Diaries 1907-1914 - Prodigious Youth (Paperback, Main)
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Prokofiev, a compulsive diarist, gifted and idiosyncratic writer,
possessed an incorrigibly sardonic curiosity about individuals and
events. When he left Russia following the 1917 Revolution, his
diaries were recovered from the family flat in Petrograd, and
Prokofiev smuggled them out of the country after his first return
to the Soviet Union in 1927. The later diaries, written in the
West, were brought back by legal decree after the composer's death,
to be kept in a special, closed section of the Russian State
Archive. Eventually Prokofiev's son Svyatoslav was allowed to copy
the voluminous contents; when he and his son Serge Jr moved to
Paris they undertook the gigantic task of reproducing the partially
encoded manuscript in an intelligible form. Volume I covers the
bulk of Prokofiev's years at the St Petersburg Conservatoire,
ending with his triumphant graduation. Simultaneously attached to
and exasperated by the traditions exemplified at this time by such
famous men as Rimsky-Korsakov, Glazunov, Lyadov and Tcherepnin, the
relentlessly brash young genius relishes the power of his talent to
irritate, challenge and finally overcome the establishment,
alongside unusually candid revelations of the all-too-normal
preoccupations of a young man flexing his muscles in society. Taken
as a whole, the diaries represent an inexhaustibly rich portrait of
one of the most vibrant periods in the whole of Western art,
peopled by virtually every musician and artist of note. They
constitute both an indispensable and an entertaining source of
reference for all scholars and lovers of Prokofiev's music.
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