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Sonata in D major for Flute and Piano op. 94
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Sergej Prokofjew

Together with Shostakovich, Prokofiev is the Soviet Union’s most important composer. He left behind a wide-ranging oeuvre from the most modern to neo-classically simple works, from propagandistic commissions to compositions that the CPSU rejected as being formalistic.

1891Prokofiev is born on 23 April in Sontsovka (Ukraine), the son of a farmer.
1904–14He studies at the St. Petersburg Conservatory.
from 1908He is a member of the circle around Serge Diaghilev, who occupies himself intensively with contemporary music.
1911–18Avantgarde compositions such as Sarcasms, the Piano Concertos nos. 1 and 2, “Visions fugitives”, “Scythian Suite” are dismissed as being futuristic.
1916–17The “Symphonie Classique”, drawing on classical models, brings him international renown.
1918Prokofiev leaves the Soviet Union and travels to the USA, where his opera “The Love for Three Oranges” is performed in Chicago, and then travels to Paris in 1922. He enjoys a close cooperation with Diaghilev and writes ballet compositions.
1919–23He composes the opera “The Fiery Angel”, which receives its first performance posthumously in Venice in 1954.
1923–25The composer continues to develop his avantgarde musical language, for instance in the 2nd Symphony.
1927He enjoys a successful concert tour around the Soviet Union.
1929“The Gambler” is premiered in Brussels.
1936Prokofiev returns to his home country. He writes compositions in line with the cultural ideology of the Soviet Union. He turns towards a simpler music as early as the beginning of the 1930s. “Peter and the Wolf” is composed.
1946“The Engagement in the Monastery” is performed in Prague and “War and Peace” in Leningrad.
1948He is accused of formalism.
1953Prokofiev dies on 5 March in Moscow.

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Dominik Rahmer (Editor)

Dr. Dominik Rahmer, born in 1971 in Mainz, studied musicology, philosophy and maths in Bonn. He did his Magister Artium in 1999 and his doctorate in 2006 with a thesis on the music criticism of Paul Dukas.

From 2001 to 2011 he was employed at Boosey & Hawkes/Bote & Bock in Berlin, where he also worked on the Critical Edition of the Works of Jacques Offenbach (OEK). Since 2011 he has been an editor at G. Henle Publishers in Munich, with a particular focus on French and Russian music and works for wind instruments.

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