September 2010
Beginner
376 pages
12h 7m
English
Born at the height of Russian Romanticism, Sergei Prokofiev grew up in a doting household in what is now Ukraine. Immersed in music as a child, he would lie awake nights listening to his mother play the piano1 and soon showed great proficiency himself. His mother took him to the St. Petersburg Conservatory, where at age 13 he became the youngest student ever to be accepted to the school.
With a precocious confidence bordering on arrogance, the young Prokofiev earned the nickname “enfant terrible” among his instructors,2 regularly ignoring the rules of compositional style ...
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