excerpt from 'Sergey Prokofiev diaries: 13 September 1914' pp. 735 (74 words)
excerpt from 'Sergey Prokofiev diaries: 13 September 1914' pp. 735 (74 words)
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At ten o'clock I went to the Alexander Nevsky Monastery to attend the Requiem Mass for Anna Nikolayevna Yesipova on the ritually prescribed forty days after her death.* About thirty of us were present, many of her entourage to whom I am indifferent or actively hostile. The choir sung with refined artistry, but the music was very bad. An idea came to me of writing a Mass that would be severe, sad and passionate. |
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