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Sergei Prokofiev's Piano Sonata No. 6 in A major, Op. 82 is a sonata for solo piano, the first of the "War Sonatas". It was composed in 1940 and first performed on 8 April of that year in Moscow, with the composer at the piano.
Sergei Prokofiev's Piano Sonata No. 8 in B ♭ major, Op. 84 is a sonata for solo piano, the third and longest of the three "war sonatas", with performances typically lasting around 30 minutes. He completed it in 1944 and dedicated it to his partner Mira Mendelson , who later became his second wife. [ 1 ]
War Sonata may refer to: One of three sonatas by Sergei Prokofiev Piano Sonata No. 6 (Prokofiev) (1940) Piano Sonata No. 7 (Prokofiev) (1942) Piano Sonata No. 8 (Prokofiev) (1944) Piano Sonata No. 2 (Kabalevsky) (1945), by Dmitry Kabalevsky; Ninth Sonata in A minor, Op. 30 (circa 1914-1917), by Nikolai Medtner
Violin Sonata No. 2 in D major (based on Flute Sonata) 1944 95 Three Pieces from Cinderella, for piano 1942 96 Three Transcriptions for Piano (from War and Peace and Lermontov) 1941–42 97 Ten Pieces from Cinderella, for piano 1943 98 National Anthem and All-Union Hymn: 1943 and 1946 99 March in B-flat major, for band 1943–44 100
Prokofiev and Myaskovsky worked together at the conservatory on at least one work, a lost symphony, parts of which were later scavenged to provide material for the slow movement of Prokofiev's Piano Sonata No. 4. They both later produced works using materials from this period—in Prokofiev's case the Third and Fourth piano sonatas; in ...
Sergei Prokofiev's Piano Sonata No. 7 in B ♭ major, Op. 83 (occasionally called the "Stalingrad") [citation needed] is a sonata for solo piano, the second of the three "War Sonatas", composed in 1942. The sonata was first performed on 18 January 1943 in Moscow by Sviatoslav Richter. [1] Performances of this sonata can last anywhere from 17 to ...
War and Peace (Op. 91) (Russian: Война и мир, Voyna i mir) is a 1946 230-minute opera in 13 scenes, plus an overture and an epigraph, by Sergei Prokofiev. Based on the 1869 novel War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, its Russian libretto was prepared by the composer and Mira Mendelson. The first seven scenes are devoted to peace, the latter ...
In his notes accompanying the full set of recordings of Prokofiev's sonatas by Boris Berman, David Fanning states the following: . Whether the restrained, even brooding quality of much of the Fourth Sonata relates in any direct way to Schmidthof's death is uncertain, but it is certainly striking that the first two movements both start gloomily in the piano's low register.