Sergei Prokofiev, Autobiography, Articles, Reminiscences, compiled by S. Shlifstein, translated by Rose Prokofieva (Honolulu: University Press of the Pacific, 2000, ISBN 0-89875-149-7), [8] 61)
"He was a child prodigy on the order of Mozart, composing for piano at age five and writing an opera at nine". «Ήταν παιδί θαύμα, της κλάσης του Μότσαρτ, συνθέτοντας για πιάνο από τα πέντε του και γράφοντας όπερα στα εννιά»[1]Αρχειοθετήθηκε 2015-11-21 στο Wayback Machine.
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"The year was 1904, Prokofiev was thirteen, and it was clear to Maria Grigoryevna that the geographical isolation of Sontsovka was not conducive to the development of her son's burgeoning musical potential". [2]Αρχειοθετήθηκε 2009-03-21 στο Wayback Machine.
"In fact, Prokofiev's parents focused most of his educational energies on non-musical subjects, particularly mathematics and the sciences." [3]Αρχειοθετήθηκε 2009-03-21 στο Wayback Machine.
"His memoirs indicate that even in his early Conservatory years he was self-confident, generally critical of his fellow students, yet disapproving of criticism he often received from his teachers. His unfailing belief in his own innovative musical style and his criticism of fellow students was interpreted as arrogance by many around him. This arrogance and propensity to shock his teachers with his music earned him the reputation as an 'enfant terrible' -- a label Prokofiev actually enjoyed." [4]Αρχειοθετήθηκε 2009-04-03 στο Wayback Machine.
"In contrast to other composers such as Rachmaninov and Tchaikovsky who wilted under critical assaults, Prokofiev welcomed the disapproving reviews. Throughout his career, in fact he would purposely push the limits of his compositions, all the while provoking and shocking listeners and critics. He relished his role as 'enfant terrible' of the music world." [5]Αρχειοθετήθηκε 2009-04-03 στο Wayback Machine.
"Prokofiev knew his prospects were much brighter in Western Europe. Blocked from heading west by war, Prokofiev headed east instead, toward the Pacific port of Vladivostok". [6]Αρχειοθετήθηκε 2009-04-03 στο Wayback Machine.
"While the Second Symphony is more remembered for its inauspicious debut, it did have a few supporters." [7]Αρχειοθετήθηκε 2007-06-10 στο Wayback Machine.
"While his notoriety grew in Europe, Prokofiev longed to return to his homeland" [9]Αρχειοθετήθηκε 2007-06-10 στο Wayback Machine.
"It quickly emerged as his most popular symphony and has remained to this day one of his greatest orchestral works." [13]Αρχειοθετήθηκε 2009-06-02 στο Wayback Machine.
"Prokofiev never fully recovered from this accident, although the greatness of works which were to follow gave no indication of it." [14]Αρχειοθετήθηκε 2009-06-02 στο Wayback Machine.
"This orgy of government denouncements, censorship, and intimidation became known as Zhdanovshchina ('Zhdanov's Terror'.) Prokofiev became the target in early 1948. Zhdanov denounced Prokofiev, Shostakovich, and Khatchaturian among other composers, as too cosmopolitan and formalist." [15]Αρχειοθετήθηκε 2012-01-20 στο Wayback Machine.
"Prokofiev wrote the first version of "War and Peace" during the Second World War. He revised it in the late forties and early fifties, during the period of the 1948 Zhdanov Decree, which attacked obscurantist tendencies in the music of leading Soviet composers." [12]Αρχειοθετήθηκε 2017-10-27 στο Wayback Machine.
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"He was a child prodigy on the order of Mozart, composing for piano at age five and writing an opera at nine". «Ήταν παιδί θαύμα, της κλάσης του Μότσαρτ, συνθέτοντας για πιάνο από τα πέντε του και γράφοντας όπερα στα εννιά»[1]Αρχειοθετήθηκε 2015-11-21 στο Wayback Machine.
"The year was 1904, Prokofiev was thirteen, and it was clear to Maria Grigoryevna that the geographical isolation of Sontsovka was not conducive to the development of her son's burgeoning musical potential". [2]Αρχειοθετήθηκε 2009-03-21 στο Wayback Machine.
"In fact, Prokofiev's parents focused most of his educational energies on non-musical subjects, particularly mathematics and the sciences." [3]Αρχειοθετήθηκε 2009-03-21 στο Wayback Machine.
"His memoirs indicate that even in his early Conservatory years he was self-confident, generally critical of his fellow students, yet disapproving of criticism he often received from his teachers. His unfailing belief in his own innovative musical style and his criticism of fellow students was interpreted as arrogance by many around him. This arrogance and propensity to shock his teachers with his music earned him the reputation as an 'enfant terrible' -- a label Prokofiev actually enjoyed." [4]Αρχειοθετήθηκε 2009-04-03 στο Wayback Machine.
"In contrast to other composers such as Rachmaninov and Tchaikovsky who wilted under critical assaults, Prokofiev welcomed the disapproving reviews. Throughout his career, in fact he would purposely push the limits of his compositions, all the while provoking and shocking listeners and critics. He relished his role as 'enfant terrible' of the music world." [5]Αρχειοθετήθηκε 2009-04-03 στο Wayback Machine.
"Prokofiev knew his prospects were much brighter in Western Europe. Blocked from heading west by war, Prokofiev headed east instead, toward the Pacific port of Vladivostok". [6]Αρχειοθετήθηκε 2009-04-03 στο Wayback Machine.
"While the Second Symphony is more remembered for its inauspicious debut, it did have a few supporters." [7]Αρχειοθετήθηκε 2007-06-10 στο Wayback Machine.
"But beneath this veneer of prolificacy and thematic facility was a composer who could write music born of pain and suffering, like the Sonata No. 1 for Violin and Piano and Symphony No. 6. These are wartime works whose emotional springboard may have more to do with anti-Stalinism than with the war." [11]
"Prokofiev wrote the first version of "War and Peace" during the Second World War. He revised it in the late forties and early fifties, during the period of the 1948 Zhdanov Decree, which attacked obscurantist tendencies in the music of leading Soviet composers." [12]Αρχειοθετήθηκε 2017-10-27 στο Wayback Machine.
"It quickly emerged as his most popular symphony and has remained to this day one of his greatest orchestral works." [13]Αρχειοθετήθηκε 2009-06-02 στο Wayback Machine.
"Prokofiev never fully recovered from this accident, although the greatness of works which were to follow gave no indication of it." [14]Αρχειοθετήθηκε 2009-06-02 στο Wayback Machine.
"This orgy of government denouncements, censorship, and intimidation became known as Zhdanovshchina ('Zhdanov's Terror'.) Prokofiev became the target in early 1948. Zhdanov denounced Prokofiev, Shostakovich, and Khatchaturian among other composers, as too cosmopolitan and formalist." [15]Αρχειοθετήθηκε 2012-01-20 στο Wayback Machine.
