Keyboard Companion
is pleased to present the second issue of Keyboard Kids' Companion
with Serge Prokofiev as the featured composer. We are very grateful
to Serge Prokofiev, Jr., the composer's grandson, for his assistance
with this issue. For further investigation about Serge Prokofiev,
including book reviews, please go to The Prokofiev Page at www.prokofiev.org. This provides a detailed
and excellent source recommended by the Prokofiev family.
Meet the Composers
- Serge Prokofiev
Serge Prokofiev was born on April 23, 1891 in Russia. His mother taught him music when he was very young and she began his formal piano lessons when he turned seven. He tried to stay awake at night so that he could listen to his mother play the piano after he had gone to bed. Prokofiev was accepted to the St. Petersburg Conservatory when he was thirteen - the youngest student ever admitted. He studied for ten years at the Conservatory, and on the day before World War I started, graduated with three diplomas and the highest prize awarded to a student pianist. He and the other lead competitor played chess - a favorite activity for Prokofiev - for many hours as they waited for the judges' decisions. The Anton Rubinstein prize was awarded to Prokofiev.
As Prokofiev was growing up, he kept musical journals, in which he saved many musical ideas. . .
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Also in the print magazine's Kids' Pages:
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