Sergei Prokofiev in Saint Petersburg Conservatory - 19 February, 20th Century, in the afternoon
from Sergey Prokofiev diaries: 19 February 1913, pages 319-320:
I hardly had time to go home and eat some bliny when it was time to return to the Conservatoire and go through the excerpts from A Life for the Tsar with Tcherepnin, and the rehearse with the chorus the National Anthem* and Glazunov's All Hail! The intebtion had been to have God Save the Tsar sung with piano accompaniment, but I had the brilliant notion of having it accompanied by the organ. The idea was accepted, and indeed it now sounds very good.
Sergei Prokofiev, Sergey Prokofiev diaries: 19 February 1913. In Anthony Phillips (ed.), Sergey Prokofiev diaries 1907-1914 (Ithaca N.Y, 2006), p. 319-320. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1437566058305 accessed: 1 September, 2024
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God Save the Tsar
written by Alexey Lvov |
performed by Students of the Imperial Conservatoire |
Experience Information
Date/Time | 19 February, 20th Century, in the afternoon |
Medium | live |
Listening Environment | in the company of others, indoors |
Notes
* 'God Save the Tsar', the Russian National Anthem from 1833 - 1917, music by Alexey Lvov