Cinderella Op.87, ballet in 3 acts (in two volumes)
Prokofiev, Sergei
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Preface
Prokofiev, Sergei – Cinderella Op.87, ballet in 3 acts (in two volumes)
(b. Sontsovka, 11 (Julian) or 23 (Gregorian) April 1891 – d. Moscow, 5 March 1953)
Scenario by Nikolai Volkov
Preface
One of Prokofiev’s best-known ballets, alongside ‘Romeo and Juliet’, is ‘Cinderella’, op. 87, also known as ‘Cinderella’ or ‘Solushka’. It consists of three acts in seven pictures and six decorations.
The composer and pianist Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev was born in Sontsovka in the Russian Empire on 11 April according to the Julian calendar and on 23 April 1891 according to the Gregorian calendar. He grew up on the Bachmut estate (now Krasne), where his father was an estate manager. Prokofiev received first piano lessons from his mother at the age of four. He began composing in 1896, in 1902 and 1903, he took private lessons with Reinhold Gliére and from 1904 with Alexander Glazunov. In 1904, at the age of thirteen, he entered the St Petersburg Conservatory, where he studied composition, counterpoint, orchestration, piano and conducting with Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and Anatoly Lyadov, among others, until 1914. He regularly gave concerts as a pianist from 1908, also with his own works. He went to the USA in 1918, to France in 1920 and returned to Russia in 1936. In 1914/15 he was invited by Serge Diaghilev to compose his first ballet ‘Ala and Lolli’, which was withdrawn due to its musical proximity to Stravinsky’s ‘Le sacre du printemps’.1 His musical fairy tale ‘Peter and the Wolf’ became best known.
Prokofiev’s oeuvre includes operas such as ‘Undine’, ‘The Gambler’, ‘The Love for Three Oranges’, ‘The Betrothal in the Monastery’ and ‘War and Peace’. Among others he wrote the ballets ‘Romeo and Juliet’ and ‘The Tale of the Stone Flower’, the musical fairy tale ‘Peter and the Wolf’, incidental music, orchestral works, works for solo instrument and orchestra, chamber music, piano works, vocal and choral works, songs for voice and piano, film music, arrangements and a narrative.2
Prokofiev had been working on his ballet ‘Cinderella’ since 1940, when recorded the first sketches. …
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Score Data
Score Number | 4952 |
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Edition | Repertoire Explorer |
Genre | Ballet |
Pages | 630 |
Size | 210 x 297 mm |
Printing | Reprint |