Pictures of
Sergei Prokofiev

Russian/Soviet composer
(1891-1953)


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Prokofiev wrote a wide range of music: symphonies, concertos, sonatas, chamber music, film music, operas, ballets, and program pieces. The best known Prokofiev music includes the operas The Love for Three Oranges and Betrothal in a Monastery; the ballets The Buffoon, Le Pas d'acier, and Romeo and Juliet; the symphonic fairy tale, Peter and the Wolf; and music for the films Lieutenant Kije and Alexander Nevsky.




Sergei Prokofiev, 1918.
Photographer: Unknown. Source: Library of Congress. Public domain image..




A 1991 USSR stamp celebrating the birth centenary of Sergei Prokofiev.




Three Soviet composers: (from left to right) Prokofiev, Shostakovich and Khachaturian (1940).

Photographer: Unknown. (Public domain image due to expired copyright.)




Sergei Prokofiev playing his Third Piano Concerto with the Orchestre Symphonique de Brussel under Désiré Defauw at the Palais de Beaux-Arts, Brussels, in February 1936. Pencil portrait by Hilda Wiener (1877-1940). Apparently sketched from life. Signed by the composer. (PD because
copyright expired.)




A scene from Prokofiev's opera, L'amore delle tre melarance (Love for Three Oranges), as depicted on this postage stamp issued by San Marino in 1999.





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Note: This picture gallery page includes drawings, paintings, photos and images of Sergei Prokofiev, his music, activities, friends and family, and the various places where the composer lived and wrote.