Ane ndak yakin prokofiev kurang disenangi musiknya di usa. Apalagi alasannya orang amerika lebih suka spesialis dan kemurnian.
Orang amerika itu kan banyak jumlahnya. Jumlah yg gede dan berbeda ini apakah juga bikin mereka juga tidak suka sama Mozart, Beethoven, bach dll? Kan enggak? Yg ane tahu prokofiev ini suka dibandingkan dgn 2 composers rusia lainnya yg kurang lebih sejaman (modern period): Stravinsky (orang kanan) dan Shostakovich (orang kiri). Prokofiev ini beda apolitis shg karya2nya juga sejalan dgn hidupnya. Ini dasarnya yg ane lihat. Dia pergi ninggalin rusia ke amerika itu penuh dgn tekad. Lalu dia ke eropa dan bilang orang Europa lebih suka musiknya dibandingkan orang amerika. Ini mempengaruhi karya2nya. Dalam artikel dibawah ini kelihatan kata yg dipake’: verdict. Verdictnya Stravinsky dan shotakovich itu jelas. Prkofiev kurang jelas krn hidupnya pindah2 dari rusia, keluar rusia amerika dan eropa lalu balik ke rusia lagi. Prokofiev’s work may be divided into three periods: Russian, exilic, and Soviet. Always facile, he composed a huge amount of music, of which perhaps half was written prior to his return to the Soviet Union in the mid-1930’s; of this first half, half again was written in his self-imposed exile after the Revolution. Altogether, in a compositional career stretching over a half-century, he completed seven symphonies, seven operas, seven ballets, four scores for dramatic productions, six film scores, five piano concertos, two violin concertos, two cello concertos, two string quartets, nine piano sonatas, two violin sonatas, a cello sonata, a host of songs, much solo piano music, and assorted orchestral, choral, and instrumental works. Not surprisingly, the piano works of Prokofiev’s Russian period, which were responsible for his early reputation, are no longer shocking. Instead, they now seem by turns flippant and sentimental. Two short dissonantal works, Suggestion diabolique (1908-12) and Toccata (1912), have become virtuoso showpieces beloved of hard-driving pianists; they were especially popular a generation ago, at least in this country, with young pianists anxious to profit from the public regard for Vladimir Horowitz’s clangorous tone. <https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/a-new-look-at-prokofiev/#2.2> 2 Visions fugitives (1915-17), twenty wistful and spicy keyboard miniatures, are very much more tuneful and refined, though hardly more memorable as musical thought. The four piano sonatas that date from this period do no more than replicate the mixture of cynicism and emotionality on a larger scale; the best of them, and the only one heard often today, is the Sonata no. 3 (composed 1907, revised 1917): short, sweet, and brilliant, it smacks of a greatly talented conservatory student showing off all his tricks upon graduation. The composer’s first two piano concertos, the earlier written in 1911-12 and the latter in 1912-13 but revised in 1923, make the same impression with still greater presumption; indeed, it was through his playing of the Concerto no. 1 in a public contest that Prokofiev beat his fellow students and emerged in 1914 as the best pianist at the St. Petersburg Conservatory. Prokofiev’s orchestral compositions during this time, though much talked about in their day, now seem hardly more consequential. The Scythian Suite (1914-15), drawn from an unproduced ballet written at the suggestion of Diaghilev, bears a too-close resemblance to Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring, while The Buffoon(composed for Diaghilev as a ballet in 1915, but now known in its 1922 orchestral version) openly reverts in style and mood to Stravinsky’s preceding triumph, Petrushka (1911). The Symphony no. 1 (1916-17), subtitled “Classical,” stems from a then-common desire to abandon the lushness of 19th-century romanticism in favor of 18th-century clarity; but in contrast to the gravity of Richard Strauss’s earlier Ariadne auf Naxos (1911) and Stravinsky’s later Pulcinella (1920), Prokofiev’s classicizing can easily strike a listener today as mere fussiness. One work of this period, the Violin Concerto no. 1 (1916-17), seems less trivial and, in parts, genuinely melodic; but though very much in the soloist’s repertory today, it too makes an overall impression of scrappiness. <https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/a-new-look-at-prokofiev/#3.3> 3 coba ikutin artikel lengkap ini: https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/a-new-look-at-prokofiev/ Ane kurang tahu koq ada orang amerika yg kurang seneng sama prokofiev. Lagu2nya banyak dimaenin oleh orang2 amerika. Begitu juga di kompetisi2 musik klasik lagu2nya profkofiev banyak sekali. Nesare From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, November 26, 2017 12:00 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [GELORA45] prokofiev Sergey Prokofiev, adalah komposer besar Rusia periode modern yang diakui keunggulannya di hampir semua genre musik hingga pertengahan abad 20. Barangkali itu sebabnya Prokofiev kurang digemari orang Amerika yang senang menuntut kemurnian dan maunya serba spesialis. Tidak peduli sekalipun Prokofiev termasuk makhluk ajaib di alam dunia. Kepekaan naluri musiknya terlatih karena ia terbiasa mendengar sang ibu memainkan karya Beethoven & Chopin. Boleh saja ini dianggap masih hal biasa. Orangtua mana pun normalnya ya membuka diri seperti ini jika ingin dekat dengan buah hatinya. Yang di luar kebiasaan dari Prokofiev adalah ia sudah membuat komposisi piano pertamanya pada usia 3 tahun dan menyusun komposisi opera pertamanya saat berusia 9 tahunǃ Keajaiban ini memikat Alexander Glazunov yang langsung meminta kepada sang ibunda agar mengizinkan putra tunggalnya meneruskan latihan di konservatorinya, St. Petersburg. Selanjutnya berhamburanlah sonata, cantata, simponi, concerto, opera, ballet, bahkan film score hingga band, karya Prokofiev yang menjadi tonggak musik modern Rusia. Dan akhirnya Sergey Prokofiev harus menyudahi semuanya pada usia 61 di Moskow, bersamaan hari dengan meninggalnya Stalin pada 5 Maret 1953. Walhasil selama beberapa hari jenazahnya tidak bisa dikeluarkan dari rumah karena jalanan dipenuhi kerumunan orang. Berikut karya pendek Prokofiev, Opus 2 No. 1 <https://www.youtube.com/embed/4VYCcDH8cwc> <https://s.yimg.com/nq/storm/assets/enhancrV2/23/logos/youtube.png> Prokofiev Etude Op. 2 No. 1 - Primavera Shima - YouTube
