Gabriel Prokofiev Biography

This personality is unusual in all respects. Even to his profession, as if hereditary, the grandson of the famous composer Sergei Prokofiev did not immediately come.

Ryumin advertising Gabriel Prokofiev, a British composer and producer, began his musical career as a DJ. At the end of X, when he, along with his peers-teenage, created a disco-punk group, he took the pseudonym "Olegovich". Actually, this is his middle name, the name of his father, artist Oleg Prokofiev. And the surname of his famous grandfather, Sergei Prokofiev, one of the most outstanding composers of the twentieth century, Gabriel wanted to “cover” in this way - so that they would not compare with his grandfather.

What happens to the grandchildren of celebrities "when I was younger, I was embarrassed due to the fact that I am Prokofiev, - Gabriel says in an interview with DW. It was a very high bar. Even now I feel that I was a little overloaded with the legacy of Prokofiev. And I want to be just myself. But it is always the case with the grandchildren of celebrities." Sergei Prokofiev with his wife Lina and sons Svyatoslav and Oleg Photo: Gemeinfrei grandfather, by the way, did not know.

Gabriel was born more than two decades after his death. Sergei Prokofiev, along with his wife Lina and sons Oleg, future father of Gabriel and Svyatoslav, he was four years older than Oleg to the Soviet Union of France, where he lived after the revolution and where his children were born. In the USSR, the composer left the family and married again. His ex -wife, the mother of Oleg and Svyatoslav, was imprisoned, and she spent eight years in the camps.

Prokofiev did not take his sons to his new family, and they turned out to be left to themselves. In the year, the famous composer died. They lived in France, Germany and Great Britain, where Gabriel was born in the year. The revolutionary Beethoven precisely because of his grandfather he did not immediately become an academic composer. He studied at a music school, played on piano, Valtorne and the pipe, then became a famous DJ, founded his own label and club night, which he did not accidentally call "nonclassical".

Only then he turned to the classics, enriching it with electronic effects. Now he is 43 years old, and he arrived at the Beethoven festival in Bonn to fulfill the Remix of the famous ninth Symphony Beethoven. He approached this, as he himself says, with timidity, because it is "a masterpiece that revolutioned in symphonic music." Beethoven for Gabriel Prokofiev is something like the Gogol "overcoat" for Russian literature, from which, as the classic said, "we all came out." After all, he brought so much to classical music!

He changed his ideas about the symphony, about the role of the choir in it, he added drama and expression. We owe Beethoven to the discovery of a deeply personal aspect of classical music. "See also:.