Students of the Bestuzhev Institute in Saint Petersburg et al. - 23 November, 1913, at night

from Sergey Prokofiev diaries: 23 November 1913, page 549:

At half past ten a student in a car came to take me to the evening of contemporary literature and music at the Bestuzhev Institute. When I got there, Igor Severyanin was reading - or rather mumbling - his verses. The students raved and howled in ecstasy, endlessly demanding encores. 

After the interval I played my pieces, on a fairly dreadful piano whose forte was tolerable but whose piano was execrable. Yulia Weisberg had warned me to choose a reasonably accessible repertoire for these musically non-specialist female students, so I played …   more >>

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Sergey Prokofiev, Sergey Prokofiev diaries: 23 November 1913. In Anthony Phillips (ed.), Sergey Prokofiev diaries 1907-1914 (Ithaca N.Y, 2006), p. 549. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1446508964162 accessed: 22 November, 2024

location of experience:

Listeners

Sergei Prokofiev
performer, Composer, Musician
1891-1953

Listening to

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Little compositions
written by Vyacheslav Karatygin
Piano pieces
written by Nikolai Medtner, Sergei Prokofiev
performed by Sergei Prokofiev
Songs
written by Igor Stravinsky
performed by Gury Stravinsky

Experience Information

Date/Time 23 November, 1913, at night
Medium live
Listening Environment in the company of others, indoors, in public

Originally submitted by isobel.1111 on Tue, 03 Nov 2015 00:02:44 +0000
Approved on Mon, 11 Jun 2018 14:44:56 +0100