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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