Sergei Prokofiev: The Relationship between Music and Communist Ideology.

The Russian and Soviet composer Sergei Prokofiev was one of the greatest musicians of the XXth century. The present paper aims to investigate the ways in which Communist ideology influenced his the musical language, to analyse the complex interactions between Prokofiev's musical creation and ideology. I will take into consideration especially the context of the Soviet music from 1917 to 1953, Sergei Prokofiev's position in the Soviet world, and the typology of the music composed by Prokofiev. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]