Beth's Piano Studio
3790 Kersdale Place
Grove City, Ohio 43123
614-420-6367
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Featured Composer for September
Sergei Prokofiev
Sergei Prokofiev was taught to play the piano by his mother, starting formal piano lessons when he was eleven. He composed a children’s opera when he was nine and 3 more operas while he was a teenager. He gave his first major performance at the age of 17.
He was a major Russian composer of the Contemporary Era, although his music represents other styles as well. He wrote operas, ballets, symphonies, concertos, vocal music, and a number of sonatas, concertos, and individual pieces for piano. He was known best as a composer, but also was a conductor and pianist. He was awarded the Lenin Prize (the Soviet Union’s highest honor) for his Seventh Symhony.
One of his best-known works is Peter and the Wolf, which is based on a Russian folk tale and introduces the instruments of the orchestra to represent each character in the story.
His music is known for being humorous and dissonant (sounding as if the notes don’t sound right together).