The People's Artist

A detailed chronicle of Prokofiev's career from 1932 to 1953, based on exclusive and extensive research conducted at several Russian archives. The People's Artist examines Prokofiev's decision to relocate to Stalin's Russia in 1936, the mandated rewriting of such major works as Romeo and Juliet and War and Peace, and the composer's aesthetic and spiritual views.

Simon Morrison is Professor of Music at Princeton University. He is the author of Russian Opera and the Symbolist Movement and the editor of Prokofiev and His World . He restored the original, uncensored version of Romeo and Juliet for the Mark Morris Dance Group, which enjoyed its world premier in 2008.

Introduction
1.: 1935-1938
2.: 1938-1939
3.: The Pushkin Centennial Scores
4.: 1940-43
5.: The Eisenstein Films and Tonya
6.: 1944-47
7.: 1948
8.: 1949-53