His influence on Britten: The vital Prokofiev

From: Musical Times | Date: April 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

LYN HENDERSON traces the musical relationship between the two twentieth-century masters

The death of this composer who possessed such wonderful vitality, such daring, such optimism, is a great loss to the entire world.1

SO WROTE Benjamin Britten on learning of the death of Sergey Prokofiev on 5 March 1953. Twenty-two years Britten's senior, Prokofiev's is not the first name that springs to mind when we consider the wealth of artistic influences that would have rained down on the English prodigy during the second quarter of the twentieth century, and we might think more readily of Mahler or ...

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