SERGEI PROKOFIEV Foreword Cotets About This Editio About the Composer About the Music Sources Cosulted 8 Soata No (i F mior), Op 9 Soata No (i D mior), Op Soata No (i A mior), Op 8 66 Soata No (i C mior), Op 9 8 ABOUT THIS EDITION Foreword Sergei Prokofiev composed for solo piao throughout his creative life A maor portio of this keyboard output icludes the ie completed soatas, spaig the years 907 9 (A 0th ad a th soata were plaed but exist oly i short fragmets) Prokofiev was a accomplished piaist, ad his keyboard works reflect a thorough kowledge of the istrumet ad its possibilities This editio addresses soatas Editorial Cosideratios: Figerigs i ormal type are by the editor, while italicized figerig idicatios are by the composer I this editio, dashed lies are used to show voice leadig The few pedalig idicatios foud i the first published editios are presumably by the composer, whose recordigs reflect sparseess i his pedal soud The composer s pedal marks are oted i the score All other pedalig suggestios are by the editor Origial mauscripts of these soatas were uavailable to the editor A search for locatios of origial Prokofiev mauscripts i the Uited States revealed materials at the Library of Cogress ad the mauscripts archives of Columbia Uiversity While both istitutios cotai some origial source material by Prokofiev, either holds material relevat to this study of the first four piao soatas The followig scores have bee refereced as primary sources i the productio of this editio: Prokofieff, Serge Piao Soatas [Nos 9] Edited ad aotated by Irwi Freudlich New York: Leeds Music Corporatio, 97 Prokofieff, Serge Soata No New York: Edwi F Kalmus, o date Prokofieff, Serge Soata No Edited by Harry Cumpso New York: Leeds Music Corporatio, 9 Prokofieff, Serge Soata No Edited by Erő Balogh New York: Leeds Music Corporatio, 98 Prokofiew, Serge Zweite Soate für Klavier Edited by Robert Forberg New York: CF Peters Corporatio, o date Additioal scores ad texts cosulted are listed o page 8
Soatas, Opp,, 8, 9 Edited by Thomas Schumacher ABOUT THE COMPOSER Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev was bor April, 89 i Sotsovka, easter Ukraie His father was a agraria ad the maager of a large estate o which the family lived as teats His mother, a amateur piaist, provided him with his iitial cotact with the piao She gave him his first lessos ad itroduced him to the music of Mozart, Beethove, ad Chopi This early musical activity also icluded composig, ad upo recogitio of the scope of youg Sergei s performig ad creative talet, he was take i 900 to Sait Petersburg to play for Alexader Glazuov, oe of the leadig composers ad teachers i Russia at the time Advised to eter the coservatory there, Prokofiev at age moved with his mother to Sait Petersburg ad bega studies Aa Esipova was his mai piao professor; his compositio teachers durig this period icluded Glazuov, Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov, Aatoly Lyadov, ad Sergei Taeyev The atmosphere of the Coservatory stimulated the youg Prokofiev, ad although reportedly rebellious ad stubbor at times, he became attetive to ew musical treds His compositioal efforts from this period strogly show ifluece of Debussy ad Scriabi Prokofiev left Russia at the outbreak of the Revolutio i 97 ad embarked o a cocert tour of Eglad, apa, the Uited States, ad Frace He spet several years i Paris before returig to Russia, where he lived from 9 util his death i 9 Although Prokofiev chaged his compositioal style frequetly durig the course of his career, he maitaied certai stylistic facets Aspects of his compositios idetified as trademarks of his style iclude the followig: eoclassicism Classical formality ad structure with a firm sese of toality; moder harmoic exploratio darig use of dissoace, chromaticism, ad exteded harmoies (ecouraged durig his studies with Taeyev, who early o regarded the youg Prokofiev as too coservative); toccata style motoric, perpetual-motio textures that create reletless tesio ad eergy; lyricism melodies that are sog-like, ad others that are cotemplative i ature; humor sometimes lighthearted, other times bitig ad grotesque; bell-like soorities rigig, chime-like souds also prevalet i piao music of other Russia composers, most otably Moussorgsky ad Rachmaioff; fairy tale elemets programmatic use of Russia folklore, aother practice shared by his cotemporaries Sergei Prokofiev Sait Petersburg Coservatory
SOURCES CONSULTED Scores: Prokofieff, S Quatrième soate Moscow: A Gutheil, 98 Reprited, Moscow: Muzgiz, 96 Prokofieff, Sergei 9 Soatas New York: Iteratioal Music Compay, 97 Prokofiev, Sergei Nie Soatas New York: Edwi F Kalmus, o date Reprited, New York: Belwi-Mills Publishig Corporatio, 98 Prokofiev, Sergei Piao Soatas Nos : Opp,, 8, ad 9 Mieola, New York: Dover Publicatios, Ic, 00 Prokofiev, Sergey S Prokofiev: Collected Works, Vol Edited by Levo Atovmya Moscow: Muzgiz, 9 Reprited, Moscow: Muzyka, o date Texts: Berma, Boris Prokofiev s Piao Soatas New Have, CT: Yale Uiversity Press, 008 Mosaigeo, Bruo Sviatoslav Richter: Notebooks ad Coversatios Traslated by Stewart Specer Priceto, N: Priceto Uiversity Press, 00 Nestyev, Israel V Prokofiev Staford, CA: Staford Uiversity Press, 96 Robiso, Harlow Sergei Prokofiev: A Biography New York: Vikig Press, 987; reprit with a ew itroductio, Bosto: Northeaster Uiversity Press, 00 Sergei Prokofiev (96) by Hilda Wieer (877 90) 8
9 Soata No Allegro (hd = 66) 8 8 ƒ b b b b b b rit a tempo p dim b b (sopra) Sergei Prokofiev (89 9) Op b b 7 0 b bb N b b! # # b b b b b b b b b b b
0 6 f b b! b b 9 p b b b b b b b b cresc # b b b # # # b b Ab b b b b rit f marcato b b b b p A (hd, a tempo = 7) b b 8va 8 b b b dim b b b p
II Scherzo Allegro marcato (q = 60) p subito f # # # RH a () ( ) # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # 9 # f b # b # # # # # dim! # b # # # ## # # # # # # # # # # # dim # # # RH # # f # # b # # # # # a Prokofiev s idicatios of ms (mao siistra) ad md (mao destra) have bee replaced with their Eglish equivalets ad RH