Sergei+Prokofiev

= **__Sergei Prokofiev﻿__**﻿ =



__By Margaret Follett __

Born April of 1981 in Sontsovka, Ukraine of the former Russian Empire, [|Sergei Prokofiev]started playing piano at the age of five, taking informal lessons with his very musically talented mother. By the age of twelve, he was the youngest student ever to be accepted into the glorious [|St.Petersburg Academy]. After just a few months in the academy, Prokofiev was already well known for his arrogence, along with the clashing harmonies and discordant sounds that were part of all his compositions. When he left the academy, still these were his signatures- he seemed to thirive on the critics who called his work horrid, cacophonic, and random. Even though the critics hated his works, however, the public slowly started to like this "artisticly challenged" composer.

“When I was put to bed at night, I never wanted to sleep. I would lie there and listen as the sound of a Beethoven sonata came from somewhere far off, several rooms away. More than anything else, my mother played the sonatas of Volume I.” ~Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev   Prokofiev at age 5 with his first opera, "The Giant"

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