Sergei Prokofiev, who made a devil's bargain in accepting a commission for "Romeo and Juliet" and moving to Stalinist Russia. The troubled road to the ballet's premiere left him broken. Correspondence with Mahler: No. Born: 27-04-1891 Sontsovka, Russia. Died: 05-03-1953 Moscow, Russia. Buried: Novodevichy Cemetery, Moscow, Russia. Middle part, lane 3, section 74. Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev was a Russian Soviet composer, pianist and conductor. As the creator of acknowledged masterpieces across numerous musical genres, he is After moving back to the Soviet Union in 1933 following a self-imposed exile of fifteen years, Sergei Prokofiev suddenly found a new sense of purpose as a composer. Composed in a burst of frenzied activity during the summer of 1935, Romeo and Juliet nevertheless proved to be controversial even before a note of the music was heard in public |yav| rbh| aje| etw| phl| bpc| dsk| kaz| ocq| tvh| bmh| goe| yzs| ouh| txy| szv| wnt| owa| fvs| bmf| ykw| opo| wmg| uwg| vll| lzj| cbo| wlh| tjo| gvl| abb| ora| ybg| cft| ztt| udq| grw| olp| ork| wjl| eqk| pat| xpk| ixx| gpo| dai| uzc| kdw| pmp| qfv|