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Sergei Prokofiev was a composer with an abundance of genius but little luck. In the Soviet Union (he went into exile after the Revolution but returned in 1934) he had to endure a series of criticisms ...

Prokofiev's style was edgy and lyrical, a combination that made for very effective film music. The first film score he wrote was for a movie called "Lieutenant Kije." The Los Angeles Philharmonic ...

At 60, tired, ailing and scarred by writing to please his Soviet masters, Sergei Prokofiev, Russia’s finest modern composer, sat down to write his Seventh Symphony. His aim, he told Pravda, was to ...

It was hard for some people to believe that Prokofiev wrote his Classical Symphony. The music he'd written before it was modern and dissonant, and one composer even said, "If that is music, then I am ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- The time-honored classical program format of three works was missing its overture at Severance Music Center on Thursday evening as Franz Welser-Möst led the Cleveland Orchestra in ...

Chester Music, part of Wise Music Group, has signed a music publishing deal with British composer and producer Gabriel Prokofiev, the grandson of Sergei Prokofiev. Over the last decade, Prokofiev has ...

Immersed in his native land’s repertoire — Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, Prokofiev — he drew bold, rich sounds from the world’s major orchestras. In Russia, he was adored. By Adam Nossiter Yuri ...