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Not really everyone who had a profound influence on the world of music was necessarily a musician, or needed to be a particularly great one — occasionally it was only a matter of recognizing the last mentioned quality in others and enabling them to accomplish what they did most effective. …

In breathing new lease of life in to the symphony, sonata, and concerto, Sergey Prokofiev surfaced among the truly original musical voices from the twentieth century. Bridging the worlds of pre-revolutionary Russia as well as the Stalinist Soviet Union, Prokofiev loved a successful world-wide profession as composer and pianist. As …