Zahra & AnnikaPROKOFIEV & XINGHAI

• Allegro • Larghetto – A major• Gavotte• Finale : Molto Vivace

SYMPHONY DE CLASSIQUE

• Written in 1916-1917• Key of D Major• 15 minutes – fairly short• Mostly staccato

• Movements I and IV are fast• Movements II and III are slow, and dance inspired• Similar to Haydn’s compositions• Some dissonance at times• Tonal basis mostly consistent

SYMPHONY DE CLASSIQUE

SERGEI PROKOFIEV

CHILDHOOD/STUDIES• April 23rd, 1891•  Sontsovka, rural Ukraine (then part of the Russian

Empire).• Only child• First opera’s seen in 1899-1900, Moscow & St.

Petersburg• When he returns, he writes an opera: libretto and music

together• Composition lessons in 1902-1903 from Reinhold Gliere• Advanced Student at Moscow Conservatory• Went on to study at the St. Petersburg Conservatory• Graduates in 1914, with a prize for his 1st piano concerto

WWI• Returns to the St. Petersburg Conservatory to escape a draft• Studied organ • During this time, composed the opera “The Gambler”• Supposed to premiere Feb/March • Bolshevik Revolution – overthrew Tsar Nicholas• Premiere was put off• St. Petersburg becomes dangerous, Prokofiev leaves for Caucasus• Here he composed Symphony Classique• Returns to St. Petersburg in 1918, for the premiere

SERGEI PROKOFIEV

ABROAD• 1918-1919 goes abroad to America, to escape violence in Russia• The public mostly disliked him• Chicago: more positive, commissioned by Chicago Opera Music Director• During this time he wrote “Love for three oranges”• Head to Europe 1920-1922 • Premiered two operas in Paris, successful, bringing him fame•Moved to a town in the Bavarian Alps• Marries Spanish girl Lina Llubera • Has two sons• Writes 2 very successful ballet’s – The steel step and The Prodigal Son• Discouraged by public reactions to most of his works

SERGEI PROKOFIEV

• 1924: registers as a soviet citizen• Abides by soviet policies on music/art• Doesn’t return to Russia for good until 1936• Writes a Ballet for Romeo and Juliet• Wrote music to celebrate socialist Russia• Some music was held back because it painted a bad picture of Germans (this was during the non-aggression pact with Russia and Germany)• Leaves Moscow during WWII • Dies March 5th, 1953• Death goes unreported for a week•Only 40 people show up to his funeral

SERGEI PROKOFIEV

• Born: June 13, 1905

• Fanyu, Guangdong

• Works:• Two symphonies• Violin concerto

• Four large-scale choral works• Nearly 300 songs

• An opera• Many essays about musical theory

• Died: October 30, 1945

XIAN XINGHAI

•Violin at age 20•Nicknamed “Chicken Killer”

•1934: first Chinese student in the senior composition class of the Paris Music Academy

•Music was a revolutionary tool for him•1935: went back to China

XIAN XINGHAI AND MUSIC

•Without pay•Revive

•Thunderstorm•Sunrise and Midnight Song

•Later, went to Yan'an

BACK IN CHINA

•Place of artistic peak•No pianos

•Dean of the Music Department at the Luxun Conservatory of Music

•Composed great works in Yan’an•1939: composed The Yellow River Cantata

IN YAN’AN

HUANG HE (YELLOW RIVER)

“Symbol of Chinese defiance against the Japanese invaders”

•Six days•Cave

•Anti-Japanese War•7 movements

•Traditional melodies

THE YELLOW RIVER CANTATA

•Yellow River Boatmen's Song• Ode to the Yellow River• Wrath of the Yellow River•Defend the Yellow River

•“Prepared in 1969 by a collective of musicians, from Xian's 1939 cantata of the same name.”

THE YELLOW RIVER PIANO CONCERTO

•1940: Soviet Union –full-length documentary background music

•Hard life•Rescued by girl in Soviet Union

•Girl became wife•October 30, 1945: died of pulmonary disease

•40 years old

AFTER YELLOW RIVER CANTATA

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WORKS CITED