Summer Day, Op. 65a

Composer: PROKOFIEV, Sergei
  • Summer Day is a seven-movement suite for orchestra written in 1941. For this work, Prokofiev took seven pieces from his Music for Children, Op. 65 (a cycle of 12 intermediate character pieces for piano written in 1935) and arranged them for orchestra:1
    1. Morning
    2. Tip and Run
    3. Waltz
    4. Repentance
    5. March
    6. Evening
    7. The Moon is over the meadows2
  • Prokofiev was no stranger to writing works for children, the most famous of which being Peter and the Wolf.

Sources

  1. Dorothea Redepenning, “Prokofiev, Sergey,” Grove Music Online (2001), accessed June 1, 2026, https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000022402.
  2. “A Summer Day, Op.65bis (Prokofiev, Sergey),” IMSLP, accessed June 1, 2026, https://imslp.org/wiki/A_Summer_Day,_Op.65bis_(Prokofiev,_Sergey).

Cut IDs

40326