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Sergei Prokofiev
Sergei Prokofiev was born in 1891 at a rural estate in what is now Ukraine. His father was an engineer, his mother a pianist who gave her son his first piano lessons and transcribed his earliest compositions.
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After lessons with the composer and pianist Reinhold Gliére, Prokofiev was admitted to the Saint Petersburg Conservatory in 1904 to study piano, composition, and conducting.
In 1911, music critic Alexander Ossovsky helped Prokofiev obtain the offer of a contract from P.
Jurgenson, the music publishing house of Tchaikovsky. He travelled to Paris and London where he first encountered Sergei Diaghilev, the ballet impresario, who commissioned Chout (The Buffoon). World War I led Prokofiev to return to studies at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory, but with revolutions shaking Russia in 1917, he departed for the US.
There he gave performances and accepted a commission from Chicago Opera to write The Love for Three Oranges; he conducted its premiere in