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noun - Russian composer of ballets and symphonies and operas (1891-1953)
PROKOFIEV - Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev (; Russian: , tr. Sergej Sergejevi Prokofjev; 27 April 1891 5 March 1953) was a Russian Soviet composer, pianist and ...
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His Love For 3 Oranges is loved by opera folks |
(Gilles Apap delivers the clue.) He made the strings represent Peter in "Peter and the Wolf" |
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from the Red Square in Moscow, Russia while a memorable melody plays.) This composer of film and ballet scores was overshadowed when he died the same day as Stalin, March 5, 1953 |
At 17 this Russian was an enfant terrible; in 1929 he composed the ballet "L'Enfant Prodigue" |
There's a duck in the ballet based on this composer's "Peter and the Wolf" |
This "Peter and the Wolf" composer wrote the music for the classic film "Alexander Nevsky" |
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Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev (; Russian: , tr. Sergej Sergejevi Prokofjev; 27 April 1891 5 March 1953) was a Russian Soviet composer, pianist and conductor. As the creator of acknowledged masterpieces across numerous musical genres, he is regarded as one of the major composers of the 20th century. His works include such widely heard works as the March from The Love for Three Oranges, the suite Lieutenant Kijé, the ballet Romeo and Julietfrom which "Dance of the Knights" is takenand Peter and the Wolf. Of the established forms and genres in which he worked, he created excluding juvenilia seven completed operas, seven symphonies, eight ballets, five piano concertos, two violin concertos, a cello concerto, a symphony-concerto for cello and orchestra, and nine completed piano sonatas. * A graduate of the St Petersburg Conservatory, Prokofiev initially made his name as an iconoclastic composer-pianist, achieving notoriety with a series of ferociously dissonant and virtuosic works for his |