Sergei Prokofiev - 28 April, 1913, in the morning
from Sergey Prokofiev diaries: 28 April 1913, page 387:
Next morning, lying in bed, I felt myself so alone I was close to despair. Yesterday the pain of loss had been alleviated by bitterness at the deception: every single thing my friend had told me about himself, that I had believed implicitly, had been false! But now I forgave him everything in the face on the horror of the loneliness to which I was now condemned. True, the magnificent Max, as he had depicted himself to me, had never existed, but I had no regrets in discarding the myth and easily accommodated myself to the sham of his brilliant exterior. But Max had perished, Max was no … more >>
Sergey Prokofiev, Sergey Prokofiev diaries: 28 April 1913. In Anthony Phillips (ed.), Sergey Prokofiev diaries 1907-1914 (Ithaca N.Y, 2006), p. 387. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1438688570285 accessed: 11 December, 2024
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written by Yuri Karnovich, Aleksandr Glazunov |
performed by Yuri Karnovich |
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Date/Time | 28 April, 1913, in the morning |
Medium | live |
Listening Environment | in the company of others, in private, indoors |
Notes
Shortly after the suicide of S.P.'s best friend, Max Schmidthof. S.P. discovered the previous day that Max had deceived him over his financial means and illegitimacy.