Sergei Prokofiev in Saint-Gilles du Gard - 18 August, 1924, in the afternoon
from Sergey Prokofiev diaries: 18 August 1924, page 90:
In the afternoon I tried accompanying Ptashka in 'The Grey Dress', transposing it a tone higher. Musorgsky I could transpose without difficulty, but my own music I could not do at all: the result was a complete mess, and when eventually I got it right it was still not my music at all. A strange phenomenon! The composer grows ever more inextricably intertwined with his tonalities.
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Sergei Prokofiev, Sergey Prokofiev diaries: 18 August 1924. In Sergey Prokofiev, and Anthony Phillips (ed.), Sergey Prokofiev diaries, volume 3 (Ithaca N.Y, 2006), p. 90. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1460129584724 accessed: 19 April, 2024
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The Grey Dress, Op. 23, No. 2
written by Sergei Prokofiev |
performed by Sergei Prokofiev, Lina Prokofiev |
Experience Information
| Date/Time | 18 August, 1924, in the afternoon |
| Medium | live |
| Listening Environment | in the company of others, in private, indoors |
Originally submitted by isobel.1111 on Fri, 08 Apr 2016 16:33:05 +0100
Approved on Mon, 19 Jun 2017 11:35:40 +0100