Research Paper On Sergei Prokofiev

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Sergei Prokofiev was a very well accomplished musician and composer from Russia. He was born in 1891 on April 23. As a young child, Prokofiev, was moved by his mother’s ability to play the piano. So moved that he learned to play and gained many accolades throughout his life with his skill on the instrument. He was schooled at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory at an early age and learned from many famous musicians and composers. During the time that Peter and the Wolf was written, 1936, Prokofiev, had been moving back and forth between Moscow and Paris. These works were commissioned and written for children.

The piece, Peter and the Wolf, is not significant to the life of Sergei Prokofiev. In fact he is more known for, in the musical world,

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