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Sergei Prokofiev

1891 - 1953

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Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev (27 April [O.S. 15 April] 1891 – 5 March 1953) was a Russian composer, pianist, and conductor who later worked in the Soviet Union. As the creator of acknowledged masterpieces across numerous music genres, he is regarded as one of the major composers of the 20th century. His works include such widely heard pieces as the March from The Love for Three Oranges, the suite Lieutenant Kijé, the ballet Romeo and Juliet—from which "Dance of the Knights" is taken—and Peter and the Wolf. Of the established forms and genres in which he worked, he created—excluding juvenilia—seven completed operas, seven symphonies, eight ballets, five piano concertos, two violin concertos, a cello concerto, a symphony-concerto for cello and orchestra, and nine completed piano sonatas. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Sergei Prokofiev is the 34th most popular composer (up from 40th in 2019), the 7th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 6th in 2019) and the most popular Ukrainian Composer.

Sergei Prokofiev is most famous for his orchestral suite "Peter and the Wolf" which he composed in 1936.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Sergei Prokofiev ranks 34 out of 1,451. Before him are Bedřich Smetana, Jacques Offenbach, Dmitri Shostakovich, Ennio Morricone, Sergei Rachmaninoff, and Richard Strauss. After him are Jean Sibelius, Béla Bartók, Christoph Willibald Gluck, Domenico Scarlatti, Camille Saint-Saëns, and Johann Strauss I.

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Among people born in 1891, Sergei Prokofiev ranks 4. Before him are Karl Dönitz, Erwin Rommel, and Antonio Gramsci. After him are B. R. Ambedkar, Mikhail Bulgakov, Max Ernst, Nelly Sachs, James Chadwick, Walter Model, Edith Stein, and Pär Lagerkvist. Among people deceased in 1953, Sergei Prokofiev ranks 4. Before him are Joseph Stalin, Mary of Teck, and Lavrentiy Beria. After him are Ibn Saud, Edwin Hubble, Gerd von Rundstedt, Robert Andrews Millikan, Guccio Gucci, Carol II of Romania, Klement Gottwald, and Emmerich Kálmán.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Sergei Prokofiev ranks 7 out of 1,365. Before him are Leon Trotsky (1879), Leonid Brezhnev (1906), Hurrem Sultan (1502), Nikolai Gogol (1809), Golda Meir (1898), and Edgar de Wahl (1867). After him are Viktor Yanukovych (1950), John III Sobieski (1629), Stefania Turkewich (1898), Stepan Bandera (1909), Volodymyr Zelensky (1978), and Kazimir Malevich (1879).

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Among COMPOSERS In Ukraine

Among composers born in Ukraine, Sergei Prokofiev ranks 1. After him are Stefania Turkewich (1898), Karol Szymanowski (1882), Reinhold Glière (1874), Dmitry Bortniansky (1751), Valentyn Sylvestrov (1937), Dimitri Tiomkin (1894), Wojciech Kilar (1932), Mykola Lysenko (1842), Boris Lyatoshinsky (1894), Igor Markevitch (1912), and Franz Doppler (1821).

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