Piano Concerto No. 1 in D-flat Major, Op. 10

Composer: PROKOFIEV, Sergei
  • Prokofiev composed this concerto in 1911-12, while he was studying composition at the St. Petersburg Conservatory.1
  • Prokofiev played this concerto on August 7, 1912 in Moscow in his first solo appearance with an orchestra. The conductor was  Konstantin Saradzhev.2
  • Prokofiev dedicated this concerto to  Nikolay Tcherepnin,3 his conducting instructor at the St. Petersburg Conservatory. According to Prokofiev’s Oxford Music article by Dorothea Redpenning, Tcherepnin was “the only lecturer at the conservatory whom he took really seriously.” Redpenning also says that Prokofiev credited Tcherepnin with teaching him to appreciate the orchestral works of Mozart and Haydn.4
  • In the spring of 1914, Prokofiev played this concerto for his final examination in piano at the St. Petersburg Conservatory, where he had already finished a degree in composition. He won the conservatory’s first prize in piano for this performance.5 

Sources

  1. Dorothea Redepenning, “Prokofiev, Sergey,” Grove Music Online (2001), accessed August 13, 2021,  https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000022402.
  2. “Piano Concerto No. 1, Op. 10 (Prokofiev, Sergey),” IMSLP, accessed August 13, 2021, https://imslp.org/wiki/Piano_Concerto_No.1%2C_Op.10_(Prokofiev%2C_Sergey). 
  3. Ibid.
  4. Redepenning, “Prokofiev, Sergey,” Grove Music Online.
  5. Ibid.

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41000