Sergei Prokofiev in Saint Petersburg Conservatory - 29 October, 1913, at night
from Sergey Prokofiev diaries: 29 October 1913, pages 530-531:
I missed out going to the Sokol and instead attended the first of this season's student concerts. I love these events anyway, and on ths occasion Ossovskaya had asked me to accompany her student in the Grieg Concerto. In the same programme, one of Winkler's students, Dudar, was playing, a most lovely-looking girl. Today she got lost in the Schumann Toccata, kept stopping, and finally ran off the stage and into the corridor, where she broke down in such a terrible fit of hysterics that it simultaneously tugged at one's heartstrings and reminded one of a dog howling. She was … more >>
Sergey Prokofiev, Sergey Prokofiev diaries: 29 October 1913. In Anthony Phillips (ed.), Sergey Prokofiev diaries 1907-1914 (Ithaca N.Y, 2006), p. 530-531. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1446373118763 accessed: 7 November, 2024
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Toccata
written by Robert Schumann |
performed by Dudar |
Experience Information
Date/Time | 29 October, 1913, at night |
Medium | live |
Listening Environment | in the company of others, indoors, in public |