Sergei Prokofiev (English Wikipedia)

Prokofiev has the rare distinction for a composer of having won a game against a future world chess champion, albeit in the context of a simultaneous match: his win over Capablanca of 16 May 1914 can be played through at chessgames.com (Java required). For extracts from Prokofiev's notebooks recounting his games against Capablanca, see: The Game (part 2), sprkfv.net.^[23]

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See: Winter, Edward. "Sergei Prokofiev and Chess", chesshistory.com.

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Kerr, M. G. (1994) "Prokofiev and His Cymbals", The Musical Times 135, 608–09. Text also available at "Alexander Nevsky and the Symphony of Psalms". Archived from the original on 9 January 2009. Retrieved 18 September 2008.

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"Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev". Encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 21 September 2018.

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Norris, Geoffrey (23 January 2003). "My father was naïve". The Daily Telegraph. London. Archived from the original on 11 January 2022. Retrieved 29 May 2014.
"Prokofiev plays and talks about his music ..." YouTube. Archived from the original on 30 October 2021. Retrieved 10 June 2012.

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"How Josef Stalin Stole Sergei Prokofiev's Flowers". 11 April 2011. Retrieved 26 November 2018.

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Mann, Noelle (26 August 1998). "Obituary: Oleg Prokofiev". The Independent. Retrieved 7 June 2013.

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"Serge Prokofiev". Dictionnaire de la musique. Éditions Larousse.

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"Prokofiev". Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary.

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"Obituary: Sergei Prokofiev". Manchester Guardian. 9 March 1953. Archived from the original on 27 September 2022. Retrieved 27 September 2022 – via Newspapers.com. The death is announced in Moscow of Sergei Prokofiev, the Russian composer.
"Sergei Prokofiev, 62, Russ Composer, Dead". Windsor Star. Reuters. 9 March 1953. Archived from the original on 28 September 2022. Retrieved 27 September 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
"Prokofiev, noted composer, dies". Los Angeles Daily News. UPI. 9 March 1953. Archived from the original on 28 September 2022. Retrieved 27 September 2022 – via Newspapers.com. Sergei Prokofiev, 62, world famous Russian composer [...]

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Hingtgen, CM (1999). "The tragedy of Sergei Prokofiev". Seminars in Neurology. 19 (Suppl 1): 59–61. PMID 10718530.

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Wakin, Daniel J. (8 March 2009). "The Week Ahead: 8–14 March March: Classical". The New York Times. Retrieved 23 May 2010.

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"Prokofiev and Stravinsky – Composers Conduct". Parnassus Classical CDs and Records. Retrieved 1 June 2014.

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Ian MacDonald 1995, "Prokofiev, Prisoner of the State"

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Sidorov, Yuriy (2 August 2012). "ОТЕЧЕСТВЕННЫЕ ЗАПИСКИ". Archived from the original on 1 February 2014. Retrieved 7 August 2014.

sprkfv.net

Prokofiev has the rare distinction for a composer of having won a game against a future world chess champion, albeit in the context of a simultaneous match: his win over Capablanca of 16 May 1914 can be played through at chessgames.com (Java required). For extracts from Prokofiev's notebooks recounting his games against Capablanca, see: The Game (part 2), sprkfv.net.^[23]
The Many faces of Prokofiev. Part 2. Sprkfv.net. Retrieved on 28 August 2010.
Simon Morrison. "Dnevnik 1907–1933 (review, part 2)" [Diary]. Serge Prokofiev Foundation. Retrieved 27 August 2019.; originally "Dnevnik 1907–1933". Journal of the American Musicological Society. 58 (1): 233–243. Spring 2005.

telegraph.co.uk

Norris, Geoffrey (23 January 2003). "My father was naïve". The Daily Telegraph. London. Archived from the original on 11 January 2022. Retrieved 29 May 2014.

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Taylor, Alan (26 February 2015). "A Year of War Completely Destroyed the Donetsk Airport". The Atlantic. Archived from the original on 30 November 2022. Retrieved 30 November 2022.

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Martin Kettle (21 July 2006). "First among equals". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 29 May 2014.

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"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." "Prokofiev's War and Peace" by Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 4 March 2002, via Ross's blog. Archived 27 October 2017 at the Wayback Machine

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"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." "Prokofiev's War and Peace" by Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 4 March 2002, via Ross's blog. Archived 27 October 2017 at the Wayback Machine
"Obituary: Sergei Prokofiev". Manchester Guardian. 9 March 1953. Archived from the original on 27 September 2022. Retrieved 27 September 2022 – via Newspapers.com. The death is announced in Moscow of Sergei Prokofiev, the Russian composer.
"Sergei Prokofiev, 62, Russ Composer, Dead". Windsor Star. Reuters. 9 March 1953. Archived from the original on 28 September 2022. Retrieved 27 September 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
"Prokofiev, noted composer, dies". Los Angeles Daily News. UPI. 9 March 1953. Archived from the original on 28 September 2022. Retrieved 27 September 2022 – via Newspapers.com. Sergei Prokofiev, 62, world famous Russian composer [...]
Sidorov, Yuriy (2 August 2012). "ОТЕЧЕСТВЕННЫЕ ЗАПИСКИ". Archived from the original on 1 February 2014. Retrieved 7 August 2014.
"Prokofiev". Ballet Met. Archived from the original on 12 November 2013. Retrieved 23 March 2014.
Kerr, M. G. (1994) "Prokofiev and His Cymbals", The Musical Times 135, 608–09. Text also available at "Alexander Nevsky and the Symphony of Psalms". Archived from the original on 9 January 2009. Retrieved 18 September 2008.
"Sergei Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf". Chandos. Archived from the original on 29 October 2007. Retrieved 7 August 2014.
Taylor, Alan (26 February 2015). "A Year of War Completely Destroyed the Donetsk Airport". The Atlantic. Archived from the original on 30 November 2022. Retrieved 30 November 2022.

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/prəˈkɒfiɛf, proʊ-, -ˈkɔː-, -ˈkoʊ-, -jɛf, -jɛv, -iəf/;^[1]^[2]^[3] Russian: Сергей Сергеевич Прокофьев, romanized: Sergey Sergeyevich Prokofiev, IPA: [sʲɪˈrɡʲej sʲɪˈrɡʲe(j)ɪvʲɪtɕ prɐˈkofʲjɪf] ^ⓘ; alternative transliterations of his name include Sergey or Serge, and Prokofief, Prokofieff, or Prokofyev.^[4]^[5] In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Sergeyevich and the family name is Prokofiev.

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Ross 2007, pp. 282–283. Ross, Alex (2007). The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. pp. 282–283. ISBN 978-0-374-24939-7. OCLC 82172875.

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"Prokofiev plays and talks about his music ..." YouTube. Archived from the original on 30 October 2021. Retrieved 10 June 2012.