citato in Lia Secci, Il «fiore di pietra», La Fiera Letteraria, aprile 1973
Frasi di Sergej Sergeevič Prokof'ev
Sergej Sergeevič Prokof'ev
Data di nascita: 11. Aprile 1891
Data di morte: 5. Marzo 1953
Sergej Sergeevič Prokof'ev è stato un pianista e compositore russo.
Frasi Sergej Sergeevič Prokof'ev
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Sergei Prokofiev: Autobiography, Articles, Reminiscences (1960)
„Formalism is music that people don’t understand at first hearing.“
Quoted in Boris Schwarz Music and Musical Life in Soviet Russia, 1917-1970 (1972) p. 115.
Page 106; from a notebook entry (1937).
Sergei Prokofiev: Autobiography, Articles, Reminiscences (1960)
Page 46; from the Autobiography.
Sergei Prokofiev: Autobiography, Articles, Reminiscences (1960)
„This is my best work, but only because The Flaming Angel is my greatest.“
He made a rare admission to a visiting musicologist when he was conducting his Third Symphony in Rome in 1934.
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Page 136; from his "Music and Life" (1951).
Sergei Prokofiev: Autobiography, Articles, Reminiscences (1960)
Page 36-37; from his fragmentary Autobiography.
Sergei Prokofiev: Autobiography, Articles, Reminiscences (1960)