Listen to the biography of Prokofiev

Born in the family of an agronomist. He began to engage in music from 5 years under the leadership of his mother, in the summer and - R. Glier, who came to Sonetsovka. By the time of admission to the St. Petersburg Conservatory was the author of 4 operas, symphony, 2 sonata and piano plays. He studied the conservatory in the composition of the composition of the composition with A.

Lyadov, N. Rimsky-Korsakov and J. Vitola, in-by N. Cherepinnin and piano, A. Demoliev’s creative friendship with the composer N. Tyskovsky, which continued until the end of his life, was born in the conservative years. The formation of Prokofiev as a composer proceeded in a contradictory, more complicated environment, marked by intensive search for new topics and expressive means in all areas of art.

Looking at the new currents, partly experiencing their influence, Prokofiev at the same time strove for independence and independence. The works written for a pre -revolutionary decade cover almost all genres. Piano music occupies a large place: 2 concerts for the piano with the orchestra, the 2nd edition, 4 sonatas, the cycles of "Sarcasm", "fleeting", tokkata, etc. In addition, in these years, Prokofiev created 2 operas of Maddalena, and the player according to F.

Dostoevsky, 2nd edition, ballet “Fairy Tale about the Jester, Seven Shuts Azable”, “Classical” first symphony, 1st concert for violin with an orchestra, choral and chamber-vocal works. Already in the early period, the characteristic features of Prokofiev’s creative appearance are revealed - an active attitude to life, optimism, energy and will. The range of topics and images is extensive: the subtle lyricism of the romances to the words of A.

Akhmatova and the intense expression of the “player”; The picturesquency and poetry of the fairy tale “The Ugly Duckling” for the voice and piano and the spontaneous power of the orchestra “Scythian suite”; The sharp grotesque “Sarcasms” and the buffoonery of the ballet “Fairy Tale about the jester with Prokofyev begins regular and extensive concert activities as a pianist and conductor - the performer of his own works.

Stay abroad instead of the alleged several months lasted 15 years. For the first 4 years, the composer spends on trips to America and Europe mainly France in connection with the production of his stage works and a greatly expanded concert activity. He lives in Germany, and s in Paris. The foreign period of Prokofiev’s work is marked by an active interest in theatrical genres.

He creates operas: the comic “love of three oranges” according to K. Gotsi, whose plan arose before leaving abroad, and the expressive drama “Fire Angel” according to V. Bryusov, a creative creation with S. Diaghilev, who put the ballet “on the Dnieper” in the “Grand-Opera Theater”. In the field of instrumental music, the most significant works of this period were: the 5th sonata for piano, the 3rd and 4th symphonies,, the 3rd, 4th and 5th concerts for the piano with the orchestra, in recent years of staying the creative activity of Prokofiev began to decline-made itself felt by a long gear from his homeland.

Articles and materials, p. In, the composer comes on tour in the USSR and in decides to finally return to his homeland. He becomes into the ranks of active builders of Soviet musical culture. For several years, he has been conducting classes in the composition at the School of Higher Mastery at the Moscow Conservatory. In Prokofiev’s work, a heyday has come. It is enriched with new significant topics and ideas of high humanistic sound.

The outstanding achievement of Soviet and world art was the ballet of Romeo and Juliet, in which the composer created images of a truly Shakespearean depth and realistic power. The opera “Semyon Kotko” according to the story “I am the son of the working people” V. Kataev boldly and largely successfully resolved the difficult task of mastering a modern topic in the opera theater.

A significant place in the prewar years was occupied by Prokofiev’s work for the drama theater and cinema in community with the largest Soviet directors - V. Meyerhold, A. Tairov, S. S. One of the Stage works of Prokofiev was the music of “Alexander Nevsky” Eisenstein, which served as the basis for the candidate of the same name. The appeal to the folk historical and patriotic topic revealed and strengthened the national basis of Prokofiev’s work, which was brightly revealed in subsequent works-the cantata “Zdravitsa” on folk texts, in music to the film “Ivan the Terrible”; as amended by M.

Chulaki created ballet, post. In e gg. Prokofiev writes works for children: a collection of piano plays “Children's Music”, a symphonic fairy tale “Petya and Wolf” for a reader and orchestra, introducing children in an witty, lively figurative form with timbrees of various instruments, children's songs. The end of 30 is the beginning of the x. He begins work almost simultaneously above a number of works: a sonata for violin and piano, three sonatas for the piano 6th, 7th, 8th, the lyrical-comic opera “Help in the monastery” based on the play by R.The completion of most of them was pushed away by the Great Patriotic War of the most important work of the war years was the opera and peace by the novel by L.

Tolstoy - one of the central works in the work of Prokofiev and the largest achievement of Soviet opera art. The theme of the war was reflected in others. The last Opekofiev opera “Tale of a real man” according to B. Polevoy in the post -war years, Prokofiev’s work, has acquired the features of special clarity, classical harmony, wise simplicity. Light lyrical or fantastic images of the 9th sonata for piano begin to occupy more and more place in it; Sonata for the cello and piano, still attracts the composer of the world of childhood, youth: the vocal symphonic suite “Winter Koster” and the oratorio “On guard of the world” on the texts of S.

Bazhov; The 7th Symphony, for which Prokofiev was the first of the Soviet composers, was awarded the Lenin Prize in the USSR State Prize for the 5th Symphony, the 8th Sonata for the piano and music for the 1st series of the film "Ivan the Terrible", and in the 1st sonata for the violin and the piano. He was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labor. Prokofiev went down in the history of Soviet and world musical culture as a composer-innovator, who created a deeply original style, his system of expressive means.

Prokofiev’s creativity is highly inherent in effectiveness and activity. In his works, the epic principle prevails. A bright individuality was noted by Prokofiev’s lyrics - inspired, deep and at the same time internally restrained, crystal pure. In the process of developing the work of Prokofiev, his close ties with the traditions of Russian music M. was increasingly revealed more clearly Mussorgsky, A.

Borodin, N. inherent in the composer, acute observation made him one of the outstanding masters of the musical portrait, combining external characteristics with psychological truthfulness. This predetermined the main role of stage genres in the work of Prokofiev. In an effort for stage realism, overcoming statics, etc. Prokofiev significantly enriched the sphere of vocal expressiveness in the opera due to the widespread use of declamation based on the flexible transmission of speech intonations.

The operas of Prokofiev are characterized by genre multi -digitism and multifaceted drama. So, “War and Peace” combines the features of the lyric-psychological drama and the people's heroic epic. The large place in the creative heritage of Prokofiev is occupied by piano works, in which the features of Prokofiev’s pianism are peculiar: constructive clarity of form and texture, distrust of sound, instrumental interpretation of the piano timbre, elasticity and rhythm energy.

Symphonic symphonies, overtures, suits and vocal-symphonic oratorors, the cantata of the work also generally reflected the epic orientation characteristic of Prokofiev. Most of them are inherent in objectivity, tone narration, dramaturgy, based not on a clash, but on comparing contrasting images. Prokofiev’s work compiled an era in the world musical culture of the 20th century.

The identity of musical thinking, the freshness and originality of melodics, harmony, rhythm, instrumentation of the composer discovered new ways in music and had a powerful impact on the work of many Soviet and foreign composers. 20 volumes of collections of musical works of the composer were published. Big Soviet Encyclopedia.