{"id":527,"date":"2022-02-09T22:28:08","date_gmt":"2022-02-09T22:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/matija.kranjcic.com\/?p=527"},"modified":"2023-11-02T13:42:52","modified_gmt":"2023-11-02T13:42:52","slug":"s-prokofiev-sonata-op-94","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.duovonmeck.com\/?p=527","title":{"rendered":"S. Prokofiev: Flute Sonata in D, Op. 94"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The beginning of his work was marked by the exploration of ballets and continued with operas full of dissonant tensions and unusual combinations of instruments. His compositions are harmonically and melodically clear, often with a constant flow of rhythm. By avoiding the solo cadence, he implements the idea of an artist as primarily a part of the concert ensemble. Diaghilev\u2019s great friend and \u201cthe best Russian composer of that time, after Stravinsky\u201d, of course.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Sergey Prokofiev (1891 \u2013 1953) received his first piano lessons from his mother. At the age of 13, he went to St. Petersburg to study composition, piano, and conducting at the St. Petersburg Conservatory. In 1912, Prokofiev wrote the First Piano Concerto<\/em>, for which he received the Anton Rubinstein Prize.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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most of his student colleagues considered him as an eccentric and arrogant person<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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After graduating from the Conservatory, Prokofiev went to London where he got to know the ballets The Firebird<\/em>, Petrushka<\/em>, and Daphnis et Chlo\u00e9<\/em>, and began a long-term collaboration with Diaghilev, director of Russian Ballet. Influenced by the ballets of Stravinsky and Ravel, he composed pieces spiked with vicious humour and sharp grotesque.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Prokofiev, a passionate chess player, defeated Ravel in a chess game<\/p>\nhttps:\/\/www.chessgames.com\/perl\/chessgame?gid=<\/em>1579921<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

In the year before the Revolution in Russia, one of his most famous works, influenced by the works of Haydn, was written, the Classical Symphony<\/em>. Prokofiev said that Mozart would have probably composed it similarly if he had lived in his time and had kept his way of musical thinking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mozart and Prokofiev composed their first pieces at the age of five<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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In 1918 he went to New York, where he met a young singer, Lina Llubera, who became his first wife. For many years they stayed in Paris, where he was in close contact with Francis Poulenc and Arthur Honegger. Later, he left his wife and sons for the poet Mira Mendelssohn.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Robert Schumann, Alexander Scriabin, Paul C\u00e9zanne, Pablo Picasso \u2013 Prokofiev\u2019s great role models<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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In 1932, \u201cthe prodigal son” returned to his homeland and earlier works. We consider the ballet Romeo and Juliet<\/em> a masterpiece because of its extraordinary simplicity. On his last trip abroad, Prokofiev visited Hollywood, where he worked with Sergey Eisenstein on the music for Eisenstein\u2019s film Alexander Nevsky<\/em>. <\/p>\n<\/div>

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Prokofiev’s music has been used in 164 films and TV shows<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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At the time of World War II, he composed the ballet Cinderella<\/em>. The ballet wasn’t seen as politically incorrect because it was related to Tchaikovsky\u2019s Sleeping Beauty.<\/em> Overwork was fatal to the composer\u2019s health, as well as censorship by the Communist Party because of \u201cformalism\u201d. The lyrical Symphony No. 7<\/em> was the composer\u2019s swan song. He died unnoticed on the day Stalin’s death was announced.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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classical, inventive, toccata, lyrical and humorous – Prokofiev on the characteristics of his own works<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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During the summer of 1943, Sergey Prokofiev escaped the war-torn Eastern Front and went to the Central Asian city of Almaty, where he worked on the film score for Eisenstein\u2019s Ivan the Terrible. <\/em>In the middle of this massive project, Prokofiev found himself drawn to something he described as a \u201csonata in a gentle, flowing classical style.\u201d<\/em> Sonata for flute and piano in D major, op. 94<\/em> was composed and first performed in 1943. After the world premiere in Moscow, the violin version was created in collaboration with the violinist David Oistrach. It is called the Second Sonata for violin, <\/em>with the unchanged piano part from his Sonata for flute and piano in D major<\/em>. There are four movements: Moderato, Allegro scherzando, Andante, and Allegro con brio. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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