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In contrast to composers such as Béla Bartók, Dmitri Shostakovich never demonstrated an interest in teaching piano to children or composing music for pedagogical use. The impetus for the creation of the Children's Notebook was personal: it was intended for his daughter, Galina, who in 1944 was eight years old and commencing piano lessons. [2]
Sergei Prokofiev's Piano Sonata No. 3 in A minor, Op. 28 (1917) is a sonata composed for solo piano, using sketches dating from 1907. Prokofiev gave the première of this in Saint Petersburg on 15 April 1918, during a week-long festival of his music sponsored by the Conservatory. [1]
Summer Day, orchestral suite based on seven pieces from Music for Children: 1941 66 Six Songs, for choir and piano 1935 67 Peter and the Wolf, for narrator and orchestra 1936 68 Three Children's Songs, for voice and piano 1936 69 Four Marches, for band 1935–37 70 The Queen of Spades, film score 1936 70bis Boris Godunov, incidental music 1936 71
The Harmonice Musices Odhecaton (One Hundred Songs of Harmonic Music, [1] also known simply as the Odhecaton) is an anthology of polyphonic secular songs published by Ottaviano Petrucci in 1501 in Venice. It is the first book of polyphonic music ever to be printed using movable type.
Sergei Prokofiev's Piano Sonata No. 2 in D Minor, Op. 14, is a sonata for solo piano, written in 1912. First published by P. Jurgenson in 1913, it was premiered on 5 February 1914 in Moscow with the composer performing.
The Flute Sonata in D, Op. 94, is a musical work composed by Sergei Prokofiev in 1943. It was initially composed for flute and piano, and was later transcribed for violin as Op. 94a, both versions have been recorded several times. The piece contains four movements.
From 2007 to 2015, the IMSLP / Petrucci Music Library used a logo based on a score. The score image in the background was taken from the beginning of the first printed book of music, the Harmonice Musices Odhecaton. It was published in Venice, Italy in 1501 by Ottaviano Petrucci, the library's namesake. [5] [non-primary source needed]
Sergei Prokofiev's Piano Sonata No. 5 in C major, Op. 38, was written at Ettal near Oberammergau in the Bavarian Alps during the composer's stay there in 1923. He would revise it thirty years later, at the end of his life, but not drastically, as his Opus 135, and it is this version that is usually played.