Sergei Prokofiev in Paris - 16 March, 1924
from Sergey Prokofiev diaries: 16 March 1924, page 32:
At nine o'clock the wretched female on the floor below began strumming on the piano, and as the night before I had gone to bed at four, I did not get enough sleep. Ptashka commissioned O.V. [Olga Vladislavovna Codina, Lina's mother] to buy some wax plugs for me to stop up my ears, on account both of the girl and of Svyatoslav. It is just as well that I have no plans to composer this spring! In June we will go somewhere by the sea, and then ... !
http://data.open.ac.uk/led/person/Sergey+Prokofiev/1450307447086, Sergey Prokofiev diaries: 16 March 1924. In Sergey Prokofiev, and Anthony Phillips (ed.), Sergey Prokofiev diaries, volume 3 (Ithaca N.Y, 2006), p. 32. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1459533056094 accessed: 1 September, 2024
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hide composersPiano playing | performed by Girl in the flat below |
Experience Information
Date/Time | 16 March, 1924 |
Medium | live |
Listening Environment | in private, indoors |