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Visions fugitives op. 22
I Lentamente
3 easy
II Andante
4 medium
III Allegretto
4 medium
IV Animato
5 medium
V Molto giocoso
4 medium
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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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Norbert Gertsch (Editor)

Dr. Norbert Gertsch, born in 1967 in Rheinkamp/Moers, studied piano solo at the Mozarteum in Salzburg and read musicology and philosophy at the Paris Lodron University in Salzburg and the Ruperto Carola University Heidelberg on a scholarship from the “Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes”. In 1996 he wrote his doctoral thesis on Ludwig van Beethoven’s Missa solemnis (as part of the New Complete Edition) under Ludwig Finscher.

In the following year, he began to work at G. Henle Publishers, initially as an editor for electronic publishing. After working on a two-year project (1999–2000) sponsored by the German Research Foundation (DFG) preparing a new Beethoven Catalogue of Works, he became a scholarly editor at G. Henle Publishers. In 2003 he became Editor-in-Chief, in 2009 Deputy Managing Director and Head of Publishing. As of 1 January 2024, the Executive Board of the Günter Henle Foundation has appointed Dr. Norbert Gertsch, as the new managing director, succeeding Dr. Wolf-Dieter Seiffert.

Gertsch has published many Urtext editions for G. Henle Publishers, including volumes for a new edition of Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas together with Murray Perahia.

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