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About this Piece

Allegro
Larghetto
Gavotte: Non troppo allegro
Finale: Molto vivace

The joke, if you will, of Prokofiev’s symphonic debut with the Classical Symphony was that the young iconoclast, who had earlier created an uproar with his Second Piano Concerto – its rowdy premiere took place in 1913, a few months after the riot-provoking premiere of Stravinsky’s Sacre du printemps – should suddenly exchange revolutionary helmet and battle fatigues for periwig and knee-breeches to evoke the elegance of the Classical era. If, a couple of decades later, Shostakovich had written anything like it – innocent, or at most disingenuous, as the score may sound to our ears – it might have been labeled “unwholesomely satirical.”

In his autobiography, Prokofiev wrote: “I spent the summer of 1917 in the country near Petrograd all alone, reading Kant [he was not above putting on airs] and composing. I deliberately did not take my piano. I had noticed that orchestral thematic material composed without the piano was often better in quality… the orchestra would sound more natural if I compose

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Symphony No. 1 (Prokofiev)

1917 symphony by Sergei Prokofiev

Symphony No. 1

Sergei Prokofiev, c. 1918

KeyD major
Opus25
Composed1916 (1916)–17
Duration16 minutes
MovementsFour
DateApril 18, 1918 (1918-04-18)
LocationPetrograd
ConductorProkofiev

The Symphony No. 1 in D major, Op. 25, also known as the Classical, was Sergei Prokofiev's first numbered symphony. He began to compose it in 1916 and completed it on September 10, 1917.[1] It was composed as a modern reinterpretation of the classical style of Joseph Haydn and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The symphony's nickname was bestowed upon it by the composer. It premiered on April 18, 1918, in Petrograd, conducted by Prokofiev.[1] It has remained one of his most popular works.[2][3]

Background

The symphony is composed in a style based on that of Haydn and Mozart, but does not follow them strictly. It has often been described as "neo-classical". The work was partly inspired by his conducting studies at the Sain

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