Prokofiev by Prokofiev: A Composer's Memoir

This detailed memoir, already enthusiastically acclaimed in the Soviet Union and the United States of America, covers the first seventeen years of Prokofiev's life, providing a fascinating evocation both of middle-class life on a remote estate in the Ukraine and of the musical world of St Petersburg and Moscow at the beginning of this century. It gives a fascinating picture of the musical world of St Petersburg - with Glazunov enjoying a high tide of fame that was slowly and sadly to recede from him; Scriabin scandalising the orthodox with his 'daring' harmonic inno vations; and Rimsky-Korsakov dismissed from the Conservatory because of his expressions of sympathy with the forces of change. Finally, it describes with remark able freshness Prokofiev's precocious development as a composer.

Format: Hardcover - good condition

Published: The Chaucer Press

Published: 1979

ISBN: 978 0 354 04429 X