It was the first music he composed upon returning to his Russian homeland in after a ten-year residency in Paris which had made him, in his own words, "restive, and afraid of falling into academism"; and it was his first effort in the film medium.
The film then chronicles in narrative the Lieutenant's arrival, marriage, and burial. Prokofiev made a five-movement symphonic suite based on the film music, revising the original orchestration considerably by adding such instruments as a cornet and saxophone to produce a more colorful, "visual" score. The festivities are both sentimental and boisterous, the main themes being wonderfully tipsy and endearing.
He was a virtuoso pianist, but who also composed from the outset, graduating from the St. The first was begun in stormy —the year of all of the cataclysmic events that initiated the Russian Revolution. It was nevertheless a year of great artistic productivity for the young composer. Among the compositions from that year familiar to audiences today are the Classical Symphony and the third piano concerto. Each episode opens with a pompous brass and woodwind choir, answered by a free ranging cornet solo.
Troika: This famous number describes a swift, three-horse sleigh ride with bells. The music eventually peters out before a final fanfare. Visit CSO. However, once he had finalised his return to Russia , the iron door of the USSR slammed shut behind him. The carrot vanished, the stick appeared: Prokofiev, the home-grown conqueror of the wild West, was now required to conform. To one already steeped in theatrical music, the burgeoning film industry must have seemed a God-send.
You could, comparatively, get away with murder - especially with a Czar-slagging scenario. Czar-contradiction being a capital offence, his royal interest must perforce be satisfied.
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