Sergey Prokofiev and His World / [edited by] Simon Morrison.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Morrison, Simon, 1964- editor.

Conference Name:

Bard Music Festival.

Series:

The Bard Music Festival ; 19

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Prokofiev, Sergey, 1891-1953.

Prokofiev, Sergey.

Composers--Soviet Union--Biography.

Composers.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 580 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments

Note on Transliteration, Dates, and Titles

PART I: DOCUMENTS

"Look After Your Son's Talents": The Literary Notebook of Mariya Prokofieva / Davidson, Pamela

The Krzhizhanovsky-Prokofiev Collaboration on Eugene Onegin, 1936 (A Lesser-Known Casualty of the Pushkin Death Jubilee) / Emerson, Caryl

Prokofiev and Atovmyan: Correspondence, 1933-1952 / Kravetz, Nelly / Morrison, Simon

Prokofiev's Immortalization / Maximenkov, Leonid

PART II: ESSAYS

"I Came Too Soon": Prokofiev's Early Career in America / Press, Stephen D.

Lieutenant Kizhe: New Media, New Means / Bartig, Kevin

Observations on Prokofiev's Sketchbooks / Aranovsky, Mark / Strudler, Jason

Prokofiev on the Los Angeles Limited / Bergman, Elizabeth

Between Two Aesthetics: The Revision of Pilnyak's Mahogany and Prokofiev's Fourth Symphony / Frolova-Walker, Marina

After Prokofiev / Schmelz, Peter J.

Beyond Death and Evil: Prokofiev's Spirituality and Christian Science / Botstein, Leon

Permissions and Credits

Index

Notes on the Contributors

Notes:

"Published in conjunction with the Bard Music Festival"--P. facing t.p.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)

ISBN:

9780691190426

0691190429

OCLC:

1132229124