Research Paper On Sergei Prokofiev

Maryusha Antonovksy was no more. In her place stood Mary Antin, the same immigrant Jewish girl but with a new “American” name. Mary had also bought “real American machine-made garments” to replace her “hateful” homemade European-style clothes. “I long to forget,” she said. “It is painful to be conscious of two worlds.”

Ivan Denisovich is a prisoner of a labor camp in 1951, organized by Joseph Stalin and located in Siberia. He is a former carpenter and is serving a ten year sentence for treason. Ivan is a poor and uneducated peasant yet usually a decent prisoner. Except for one morning when he wakes up feeling under the weather, he sleeps past the wakeup call thinking a kinder guard is on duty. He is found and threatened to be punished with three days in a solitary confinement cell better known as the “hole”. Ivan’s real punishment is to wash the office floor of the headquarters and rushes to eat where he meets Fetyukov. Fetyukov is a colleague of Shukhoy and he saved him from harsh punishment. He then goes to the infirmary to be examined by Kolya who tells him he is not ill enough to get out of work.

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was born on May 7, 1840 in a small industrial town, Kamsko-Votkinsk, Vyatka, Russia. He is the second oldest out of his parent’s six surviving children. His mother, Alexandra, was half French and father worked as a mine inspector and metal works manager. Tchaikovsky was immersed into music early in his life.

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was born on May 7th, 1840, in Vyatka, Russia. His dad worked as a mine inspector. At the age of five years old, he started to take piano lessons. At an early age, he began showing a great talent in music, but his parents thought he should work in civil service. When he was ten, he started going to school at the Imperial School of Jurisprudence in St. Petersburg. His mother died of cholera in 1854 when Tchaikovsky was 14 years old. In his early twenties, Tchaikovsky began to take music lessons at the Russian Musical Society. After this, he joined the St. Petersburg Conservatory. While he attended the conservatory, he gave private lessons to his fellow music students. Around 1863, he traveled to Moscow to become a professor

Steven Gutierrez American Lit: Civil War-Pres. 2328-161 Dr. Linda Marie Garcia Mitchell October 1, 2014 The Realism of Maggie Maggie, a girl living in the streets of New York that has an unfortunate life style with such poverty and isolation. From disrespect to being abuse by the whole family, she lived in a tragedy life from the Bowery with her parents and how the environment was in total destitution. Having to live on her on own and living with her unmannerly family, things turn for the worst.

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was born on May 7, 1840 in Kamsko-Votkinsk, Russia. He was the second born of six children. His parent’s names were Alexandria and Illya. His father worked as a mine inspector. His mother died while Pyotr was only 14 of cholera. Pyotr started playing and learning music when he was very young; he grew to be a very famous composer.

It was in this position that he started to compose. He began by composing some minor overtures, quartets, and one large symphony. In 1866 that he suffered from his first nervous breakdown brought on the stress of overwork on his First Symphony. His early works were to include two other symphonies, the violin concerto, and the Piano Concerto in B flat Minor.

Dmitri Shostakovich Dmitri Shostakovich was a Russian composer. He was well known for his string quartets, concertos, and instrumental works that he composed, as well as for his numerous film scores, incidental theatre music, and ballets. Shostakovich is usually regarded as the greatest symphonist in the 20th musical achievements. However, even though Shostakovich was a famous musician, he was not projected to have a musical gift at an early age. Born in St. Petersburg on September 25, 1906, Dmitri Shostakovich was raised in a home where “music-making assumed an important place” (Fay 8).

Peter Illyich Tchaikovsky is one of the most famous Russian composers.   He was born in Votkinsk on May 7, 1840 into a middle class family.   His family greatly supported his musical interests. They gave him piano lessons and provided him with the instruction of music theory. Their move to St. Petersburg proved to be a significant milestone is Tchaikovsky’s life. It had set the course for Tchaikovsky's progress and success in the musical world.

He remained a clerk for three years. He hated his job but he worked feverishly at it for he worked hard at every task he was given. He continued to be drawn into the music world and he took piano and theory lessons. Finally, in 1862, he quit his job and devoted the rest of his life to music which he began by entering the St. Petersburg Conservatory. He graduated with a silver medal in 1865. After graduation he was unsure of what to do until 1866 when Nicholas Rubenstein offered him the job of professor of harmony at the newly formed Moscow Conservatory. It was here that he wrote his first serious works which included AA Festival Overture on the Danish National Hymn,@ his First Symphony in G AWinter Daydreams,@ and his first opera AThe Voyevode.@ Showing his desire for perfection he tore up the opera because he was dissatisfied with it and it wasn=t until 1949 that it was revived.5

Described by Yosef Mendelevich as “A Solzhenitsyn character come to life; as a perfect political prisoner with every word coming out of his mouth stinging with a kind of bitter wit, cynical yet brilliant.” (Beckerman, pp. 172) Eduard Kuznetsov was and is a strategic genius whose work as a dissident and Zionist was calculated and cunning. Every move of Kuznetsov’s was strategic starting with helping elevate the dissident movement with samizdat magazines and speeches on Mayakovsky Square, converting from dissident to Zionist action, and his attempted hijacking of a Soviet airplane with other nine refuseniks and two Christian dissidents.

His notable pieces from the classical period include, first and second symphonies, the first six quartets, the first two piano concertos, and about a dozen piano sonatas, including “Panthetique”. During the middle ages (1800 -1815) he started having listening deficiency, he composed six symphonies (No.3-8), the last three piano concertos and the only violin concerto, six string quartets (No. 7-11), many piano sonatas (Moonlight, Waldstein,and Appassionata”) and his only opera Fidelio. In his late period he (1816 onwards) he had completely lost his hearing ability, his creations were very expressive that include, Ninth Symphony, Missa Solemnis and the last six quartets and the last five piano sonatas. (8notes.com, n.d.). In his last years, he completed his work in the Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Sixteenth quartets.

The result of his commission was the first real modern ballet. It set the example of the composer consulting both with the choreographer and the stage/costuming artist during the composition.

Russian composer and master of orchestration. Nikolai was born in 1844 in Tikhvin to a

Rimsky-Korsakov was born in Tikhvin, Russia in 1844. He did not always have a significant interest in music. As a child, he took piano lessons, but he chose to follow in the footsteps of his brother and pursue a career in the Navy. While attending the Naval College at St. Petersburg, Korsakov still committed his free time to practicing piano and composition. In fact, he composed his very first symphony on a navy ship. Once he graduated naval school, he became a professor of orchestration and composition at the St. Petersburg Conservatory, which is known today as the “Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory” in his honor. Here, he taught many composers that eventually found their own fame, including