Sergei Prokofiev: A Biography
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The prolific creator of such classic popular works as Romeo and Juliet Peter and the Wolf and Cinderella Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953) was one of the most important and influential composers of the twentieth century. Drawing on unprecedented access to previously unknown or unavailable Russian-language sources including extensive archival material Harlow Robinson traces Prokofievs extraordinary life from the fairy-tale world of Czarist Russia through his many years abroad in America and Europe to his perlexing permanent return to Moscow in 1936 under the Soviet Regime. That Prokofiev died on the very day as Josef Stalin his principal persecutor was the final irony of his intense and enigmatic career.
