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Alexander Nevsky (Prokofiev)

Alexander Nevsky () is the score composed by Sergei Prokofiev for Sergei Eisenstein's 1938 film Alexander Nevsky. The subject of the film is the 13th century incursion of the knights of the Livonian

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Betrothal in a Monastery

Betrothal in a Monastery (Russian title Обручение в монастыре) is an opera in nine scenes (four acts) by Sergei Prokofiev to a Russian libretto by the composer and Mira Mendelson after Sheridan's The

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Cantata for the 20th Anniversary of the October Revolution

The Cantata for the 20th Anniversary of the October Revolution, Op. 74, is a dramatic cantata by Sergei

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Cello Sonata (Prokofiev)

The Cello Sonata in C major, Op. 119, was composed by Sergei Prokofiev in 1949. The year before, Prokofiev was accused of formalism by the Zhdanov Decree and much of his music was banned. However, he

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Chout

Chout, Op. 21, is a ballet by Sergei Prokofiev. It was originally composed in 1915, then extensively revised at the request of Serge Diaghilev in 1921. The composer extracted an orchestral suite from

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Cinderella (Ashton)

This version of the Cinderella ballet, using Sergei Prokofiev's Cinderella music and re-choreographed by Frederick Ashton, is a comic

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Cinderella (Prokofiev)

Cinderella (, tr. Zolushka; ) Op. 87, is a ballet composed by Sergei Prokofiev to a scenario by Nikolai Volkov. It is one of his most popular and melodious compositions, and has inspired a great many

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Flute Sonata (Prokofiev)

The Flute Sonata in D major, Op. 94, is a musical work composed by Sergei Prokofiev in 1943. It was initially composed for flute and piano, and was later transcribed for violin as Op. 94a, both

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Four Pieces for Piano, Op. 32 (Prokofiev)

Four Pieces for Piano, Op. 32 (Russian: ), is a set of short solo piano pieces written by Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev. Written in 1918, it is part of a lengthy series of collections of short

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Four Pieces for Piano, Op. 4 (Prokofiev)

Four Pieces for Piano, Op. 4 (Russian: ) is the third set of short pieces for piano by Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev. Notably, this set includes the Suggestion diabolique, one of the composer's

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Ivan the Terrible (Prokofiev)

Ivan the Terrible (), Op. 116, is the score composed by Sergei Prokofiev for Sergei Eisenstein's film Ivan the Terrible (1945) and its sequel (1958), the first two parts of an incomplete trilogy. In

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Le pas d'acier (Prokofiev)

Le pas d'acier (The Steel Step or The Leap of Steel; ), Op. 41, is a 1926 ballet in two scenes containing eleven dances composed by Sergei Prokofiev. Prokofiev also created a four-movement orchestral

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Lieutenant Kijé (Prokofiev)

Sergei Prokofiev's Lieutenant Kijé (, Poruchik Kizhe) music was originally written to accompany the film of the same name, produced by the Belgoskino film studios in Leningrad in 1933–34 and released

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Maddalena (opera)

Maddalena () is an opera in one act by the Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev, who also wrote the libretto based on a play of the same name by Magda Gustavovna Lieven-Orlov (under the pen name Baron

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Music for Children (Prokofiev)

Music for Children, Op. 65 (, Muzyka dlya detey), is a cycle of twelve character pieces for piano by Sergei Prokofiev (1891–1953). Composed in 1935, it is – beside its compositors qualities –

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On Guard for Peace

On Guard for Peace (), also translated as On Guard of Peace, Op. 124 is an oratorio by Sergei Prokofiev scored for narrators, mezzo-soprano, boy soprano, boys choir, mixed choir, and symphony

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On the Dnieper

On the Dnieper (На Днепре), Op. 51, is a ballet in two scenes with prelude and epilogue by Sergei Prokofiev. Composed in 1931 as his fourth work in the genre, it resulted from a commission by the

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Opus 19/The Dreamer

Opus 19/The Dreamer is a ballet choreographed by Jerome Robbins to Sergei Prokofiev's Violin Concerto No. 1. The ballet premiered on June 14, 1979 at the New York State Theater, danced by the New

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Overture on Hebrew Themes

Sergei Prokofiev wrote the Overture on Hebrew Themes, Op. 34, in 1919 while he was in the United States. It is scored for the rare combination of clarinet, string quartet and piano. Fifteen years

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Peter & the Wolf ("Weird Al" Yankovic and Wendy Carlos album)

Peter & the Wolf/Carnival of the Animals – Part II is a studio album by American parody singer-songwriter and musician "Weird Al" Yankovic and composer and keyboardist Wendy Carlos, released in

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Peter and the Wolf

Peter and the Wolf (), Op. 67, a "symphonic tale for children", is a programmatic musical composition written by Sergei Prokofiev in 1936. The narrator tells a Russian folk tale, which the orchestra

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Peter and the Wolf (1975 rock album)

Peter and the Wolf is an album adapting Sergei Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf by Jack Lancaster and Robin Lumley released in 1975. It features a rock arrangement of Prokofiev's music. Performers on

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Piano Concerto No. 1 (Prokofiev)

Sergei Prokofiev set about composing his Piano Concerto No. 1 in D major, Op. 10, in 1911, and finished it the next year. The shortest of all his concertos, it is in one movement, about 15 minutes in

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Piano Concerto No. 2 (Prokofiev)

Sergei Prokofiev set to work on his Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Op. 16, in 1912 and completed it the next year. However, that version of the concerto is lost; the score was destroyed in a fire

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Piano Concerto No. 3 (Prokofiev)

Piano Concerto No. 3 in C major, Op. 26, is a piano concerto by Sergei Prokofiev. It was completed in 1921 using sketches first started in

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Piano Concerto No. 4 (Prokofiev)

Sergei Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 4 in B major for the left hand, Op. 53, was commissioned by the one-armed pianist Paul Wittgenstein and completed in

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Piano Concerto No. 5 (Prokofiev)

The last complete piano concerto by Sergei Prokofiev, Piano Concerto No. 5 in G major, Op. 55, dates to 1932. It was premiered by Prokofiev himself at the piano on October 30, 1932, accompanied by

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Piano Concerto No. 6 (Prokofiev)

Sergei Prokofiev did not manage to compose more than a few bars of his Piano Concerto No. 6 (Op. 134, sometimes Op. 133) before his death in 1953, so it is impossible to reconstruct the underlying

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Piano Sonata No. 3 (Prokofiev)

Sergei Prokofiev's Piano Sonata No. 3 in A minor, Op. 28 (1917) is a sonata composed for solo piano, using sketches dating from 1907. Prokofiev gave the première of this in Saint Petersburg on 15

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Piano Sonata No. 4 (Prokofiev)

Sergei Prokofiev's Piano Sonata No. 4 in C minor, Op. 29, subtitled D’après des vieux cahiers, or After Old Notebooks, was composed in 1917 and premiered on April 17 the next year by the composer

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Piano Sonata No. 5 (Prokofiev)

Sergei Prokofiev's Piano Sonata No. 5 in C major, Op. 38, was written at Ettal near Oberammergau in the Bavarian Alps during the composer's stay there in 1923. He would revise it thirty years later,

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Piano Sonata No. 6 (Prokofiev)

Sergei Prokofiev's Piano Sonata No. 6 in A major, Op. 82 is a sonata for solo piano, the first of the "War Sonatas". It was composed in 1940 and first performed on 8 April of that year in Moscow,

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Piano Sonata No. 7 (Prokofiev)

Sergei Prokofiev's Piano Sonata No. 7 in B major, Op. 83 (occasionally called the "Stalingrad") is a sonata for solo piano, the second of the three "War Sonatas", composed in 1942. The sonata was

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Piano Sonata No. 8 (Prokofiev)

Sergei Prokofiev's Piano Sonata No. 8 in B major, Op. 84 is a sonata for solo piano, the third and longest of the three "war sonatas", with performances typically lasting around 30 minutes. He

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Piano Sonata No. 9 (Prokofiev)

The Piano Sonata No. 9 in C major, Op. 103 by Sergei Prokofiev is his final completed piano sonata. It is dedicated to pianist Sviatoslav

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Prodigal Son (ballet)

Prodigal Son, or Le Fils prodigue, Op. 46 () is a ballet created for Diaghilev's Ballets Russes by George Balanchine to music by Sergei Prokofiev (1928–29). The libretto, based on the parable in the

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Quintet (Prokofiev)

Sergei Prokofiev's Quintet in G minor, Op. 39 is a piece of chamber music for oboe, clarinet, violin, viola and double bass, written in 1924. The quintet, closely related to Prokofiev's ballet,

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Romeo + Juliet (ballet)

Romeo + Juliet is a ballet by New York City Ballet balletmaster-in-chief Peter Martins to Sergei Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet (1934–1940). The premiere took place on Tuesday, 1 May 2007 at the New

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Romeo and Juliet (MacMillan)

Choreographer Sir Kenneth MacMillan's Royal Ballet production of Sergei Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet premiered at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden on 9 February

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Romeo and Juliet (Nureyev)

Rudolf Nureyev's production of Sergei Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet premiered at the London Coliseum on 2 June

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Romeo and Juliet (Pastor)

Romeo and Juliet is a 2008 ballet choreographed by Krzysztof Pastor based on William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet. Pastor's three-act version is set to the same score used in the Prokofiev

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Romeo and Juliet (Prokofiev)

Romeo and Juliet (), Op. 64, is a ballet by Sergei Prokofiev based on William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet. First composed in 1935, it was substantially revised for its Soviet premiere in

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Sarcasms (Prokofiev)

Sarcasms, Op. 17 (), initially alternatively entitled Sarcastic Pieces, is a 1914 solo piano composition by Russian composer Sergei

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Scythian Suite

The Scythian Suite, Op. 20 is an orchestral suite by Sergei Prokofiev written in

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Semyon Kotko

Semyon Kotko (), Op. 81, is an opera in five acts by Sergei Prokofiev to a libretto by Sergei Prokofiev and Valentin Katayev based on Katayev's 1937 novel I, Son of Working People (). It was

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Sinfonietta (Prokofiev)

The Sinfonietta in A major, Op. 5, is a composition for orchestra by Sergei Prokofiev. The Sinfonietta is rather similar to the better-known Classical Symphony, being light in character, while

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Sonata for Solo Cello (Prokofiev)

Sergei Prokofiev began composing his Sonata for Solo Cello, Op. 134, in 1952. The sonata was intended to be written in four movements, but as it was one of seven compositions which the composer was

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Sonata for Two Violins (Prokofiev)

Sergei Prokofiev composed his Sonata for Two Violins in C major, Op. 56, in 1932 during his vacation near St. Tropez as a commission piece to conclude the inaugural concert of Triton, a Paris-based

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String Quartet No. 1 (Prokofiev)

Sergei Prokofiev's String Quartet No. 1 in B minor, Op. 50 (1931) was commissioned by the Library of Congress. The Quartet was first performed in Washington, D.C., on 25 April 1931 by the Brosa

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String Quartet No. 2 (Prokofiev)

Sergei Prokofiev's String Quartet No. 2 in F major, Op. 92 (1941) was first performed by the Beethoven Quartet in Moscow on 7 April 1942. A later concert in Moscow, on 5 September 1942, was delayed

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Symphony No. 1 (Prokofiev)

The Symphony No. 1 in D major, Op. 25, also known as the Classical, was Sergei Prokofiev's first numbered symphony. He began to compose it in 1916 and completed it on September 10, 1917. It was

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Symphony No. 2 (Prokofiev)

Sergei Prokofiev wrote his Symphony No. 2 in D minor, Op. 40, in Paris in 1924-25, during what he called "nine months of frenzied toil". He characterized this symphony as a work of "iron and

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Symphony No. 3 (Prokofiev)

Sergei Prokofiev wrote his Symphony No. 3 in C minor, Op. 44, in

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Symphony No. 4 (Prokofiev)

Sergei Prokofiev's Symphony No. 4 is actually two works, both using material created for The Prodigal Son ballet. The first, Op. 47, was completed in 1930 and premiered that November; it lasts about

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Symphony No. 5 (Prokofiev)

Sergei Prokofiev wrote his Symphony No. 5 in B major, Op. 100, in the Soviet Union in the summer of

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Symphony No. 6 (Prokofiev)

The Symphony No. 6 in E minor, Op. 111, by Sergei Prokofiev was completed and premiered in 1947. Sketches for the symphony exist as early as from June 1945; Prokofiev had reportedly begun work on it

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Symphony No. 7 (Prokofiev)

Sergei Prokofiev's Symphony No. 7 in C minor, Op. 131, was completed in 1952, the year before his death. It is his last

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Symphony-Concerto (Prokofiev)

Sergei Prokofiev's Symphony-Concerto in E minor, Op. 125 (also widely referred to as Sinfonia Concertante ) is a large-scale work for cello and orchestra. The Symphony-Concerto was premiered on 18

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Tales of an Old Grandmother

Tales of an Old Grandmother, Op. 31 () is a set of four piano pieces by Sergei Prokofiev. It was composed in 1918 and premiered by the composer himself on January 7 the following year in New York

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The Fiery Angel (opera)

The Fiery Angel (), Op. 37, is an opera by Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev. The opera was composed between 1919 and 1927. It was premiered posthumously in 1955 in Venice, in Italian. The work was

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The Gambler (Prokofiev)

The Gambler (Russian: Игрок — Igrok in transliteration) is an opera in four acts by Sergei Prokofiev to a Russian libretto by the composer, based on the 1866 story of the same name by Fyodor

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The Giant (opera)

The Giant () is an opera in three acts by Sergei Prokofiev. The 12-page work was written for performance by the nine-year-old composer's

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The Love for Three Oranges

, Op. 33, is a 1921 satirical French-language opera by Sergei Prokofiev. He wrote his own libretto, basing it on the Italian play , or The Love for Three Oranges ( Lyubov k tryom apyelsinam) by Carlo

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The Queen of Spades (Prokofiev)

The Queen of Spades (, Pikovaya Dama), Op. 70, is the score composed by Sergei Prokofiev in 1936 for the planned but unrealized film by Mikhail Romm. The film was to be based on the 1834 short story

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The Tale of the Stone Flower (Prokofiev)

The Tale of the Stone Flower, Op. 118 (), is Sergei Prokofiev's eighth and last ballet, written between 1948 and 1953. It is based on the Russian Ural folk tale The Stone Flower by Pavel Bazhov and

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The Year 1941 (Prokofiev)

Sergei Prokofiev wrote the symphonic suite The Year 1941 (Op. 90) in 1941. Prokofiev, along with other composers, was evacuated to the Caucasus when Germany started attacking the Soviet Union in

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Toccata (Prokofiev)

The Toccata in D minor, Op. 11 is a piece for solo piano, written by Sergei Prokofiev in 1912 and debuted by the composer on December 10, 1916, in Petrograd. It is a further development of the

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Trapèze (Prokofiev)

Trapèze () is a ballet by Sergei Prokofiev. Closely related to his Quintet, Op. 39 (1924), it contains eight movements (in five parts) and lasts 20–25 minutes. The complete ballet in eight movements

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Violin Concerto No. 1 (Prokofiev)

Sergei Prokofiev began his Violin Concerto No. 1 in D major, Op. 19, as a concertino in 1915 but soon abandoned it to work on his opera The Gambler. He returned to the concerto in the summer of 1917.

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Violin Concerto No. 2 (Prokofiev)

The Violin Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Op. 63, written in 1935 by Sergei

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Violin Sonata No. 1 (Prokofiev)

Sergei Prokofiev's Violin Sonata No. 1 in F minor, Op. 80, was composed between 1938 and 1946, two years after Violin Sonata No. 2. Prokofiev was awarded the 1947 Stalin Prize for this

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Visions fugitives

Visions fugitives, Op. 22, is a cycle of twenty piano miniatures by Sergei Prokofiev. The seventh piece was also published for harp. They were written between 1915 and 1917, individually, many for

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War and Peace (opera)

War and Peace (Op. 91) (, Voyna i mir) is a 1946 230-minute opera in 13 scenes, plus an overture and an epigraph, by Sergei Prokofiev. Based on the 1869 novel War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, its

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Wolf Tracks and Peter and the Wolf

Wolf Tracks and Peter and the Wolf is a 2003 album that combined the orchestral composition Peter and the Wolf by Sergei Prokofiev with a 2002 composition, Wolf Tracks, which had its score written by

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Zdravitsa

Zdravitsa, Op. 85, (, ) is a cantata written by Sergei Prokofiev in 1939 to celebrate Stalin's 60th birthday. Its title is sometimes translated as Hail to Stalin in English. A performance lasts

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