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# Sergei Prokofiev: A Biography

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## Customer Reviews

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    Enjoyable biography of a musical innovator
  

*by D***N on Reviewed in the United States on February 6, 2021*

This is one of the most engaging and informative biographies I have read. Other reviewers have pointed out that the book is dated. It was first published in 1987, right before the fall of the Soviet Union, and before further information on Prokofiev became available. Since Prokofiev spent the last seventeen years of his life solely in Stalin’s Russia, those might be highly relevant issues. Nevertheless, in terms of research, writing skill, and the ability to bring to life one of the 20th century’s greatest composers, Robinson’s biography is superb.Prokofiev’s musical personality was difficult to fathom. With one foot in the classical past and one in the 20th century’s reaction against the past, Prokofiev’s music is unique. He loved to be independent in his compositions yet his absolute love for his homeland and the resultant artistic purges led to some works that his earlier self would have found repulsive. He loved children deeply and enjoyed writing for them (my grandson loves Peter and the Wolf) but he was a distant father to his own two sons. He and his first wife traveled the globe together with Prokofiev’s innovative music but his leaving her in the Soviet Union may have created an opening for paranoid Soviet bureaucrats to arrest her. He could write powerful piano concertos treating the piano, as Robinson notes, like a percussion instrument, yet compose some of the most lyrical music in the last 100 years. Robinson details all this in a way that completely involves the reader. Robinson gives synopses of all Prokofiev’s major works but also gives the reader real insight into the composer’s personality and character.Prokofiev’s life was a journey through different types of music and different cultural and political systems. Prokofiev cared little if at all about politics; his life was his art. It can be tough to write a coherent and highly readable account of an artist so single-minded but whose personal life was so varied. But Robinson succeeds in beautifully summoning Prokofiev the person for the reader. With 493 pages of text it was a book that I had to return to many times. In every case I looked forward to continuing the story. For a biography of a 20th century composer this book has my highest recommendation.

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    Just what I wanted to know
  

*by N***O on Reviewed in the United States on August 22, 2020*

I enjoyed this biography very much. It was a thorough survey of Prokofiev's life with  a good insight to his life after he had returned to the Soviet Union from Paris. The book had a nice array of photographs, the author avoided lengthy discussions of his music and there were no examples from his sheet music.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    The Mind and Music of Prokofiev
  

*by T***N on Reviewed in the United States on May 2, 2007*

Harlow Robinson spent years in Soviet Russia researching Prokofiev during the height of the Cold War.  His research does not just include manuscripts and letters but also involves many personal conversations with those who knew Prokofiev and even with those who persecuted Prokofiev.  As a result he navigates his way through Prokofiev's life with that added dimension of relating personally to those events.  Robinson's writing is interesting and warm without being too academic or dry.  This book seems to be intended for any real fan of Prokofiev.  Lastly, this book really strives to explain some of the perplexities of Prokofiev's decisions. In particular, Robinson strives to explain why Prokofiev needed to return to Russia after his extended residence in Paris.  This book is well worth the time to read.

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