Sergey Prokofiev diaries, 1915-1923 : behind the mask / translated and annotated by Anthony Phillips.
| Author/creator | Prokofiev, Sergey |
| Other author | Phillips, Anthony, 1936 December 19- translator, editor. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, 2008. |
| Description | xxiii, 775 pages : illustrations, map, portraits ; 25 cm |
| Subjects |
| Uniform title | Diaries. Selections. English |
| Contents | The Diaries -- 1915 -- 1916 -- 1917 -- 1918 -- 1919 -- 1920 -- 1921 -- 1922 -- 1923 -- Appendix 1. Prokofiev's notes on characters in The Gambler, based on the descriptions in Dostoyevsky's novella -- Appendix 2. Description of 'The Seven' -- Appendix 3. 'The Russian Composer Prokofiev in Japan' / Eleonora Sablina -- Appendix 4. Musical America, 28 September 1918 / Frederick H. Martens -- Appendix 5. Interview in Vechernye Birzhevye Novosti, 12 May 1916 -- Appendix 6. 'Fantastic Lollypops' / Ben Hecht. |
| Abstract | This second volume of Prokofiev's diary records an astonishing record of artistic accomplishment against a backdrop of cataclysmic change. The composer dodges gunfire in Petrograd during the February Revolution, but as a rule pays attention to political events only as they affect him personally. Composition and performance are the main concerns, along with the persistent and ultimately failed struggle to arrange a performance of his opera The Gambler. As in his Conservatory years, he also reveals his own aesthetic principles as he reacts to the work of others, sometimes with dark humor ("bored out of my life" by Mahler's 7th Symphony, "it is like kissing a stillborn child."). |
| General note | Map on lining papers. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN | 9780801447020 |
| ISBN | 080144702X |