Letters : to Fatima Hanoum Samoilenko and Boris Nikolaevich Samoilenko, 1919-1936.

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Letters : to Fatima Hanoum Samoilenko and Boris Nikolaevich Samoilenko, 1919-1936.

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Contains 96 autograph manuscript and typescript letters and postcards, chiefly to Fatima Samoilenko, and a few to her husband Boris Samoilenko, concerning the progress of Prokofiev's compositions, the status of his concert engagements and his involvement in various productions of his works. He mentions his opera Love for Three Oranges (Li︠u︡bovʹ k trem apelʹsinam), his ballet The Tale of the Buffoon (Le Chout), Piano Concerto no. 3, and others. Prokofiev also enlists the Samoilenkos' help in bringing his mother, Maria Grigoryevna Prokofieva, to Paris. Also includes a crossword puzzle and sonnets composed by Prokofiev, as well as clippings concerning Prokofiev and his wife Carolina Codina, also known under her stage name as Lina Llubera.

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Prokofieva, Maria Grigoryevna, d. 1924.

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Samoilenko, Boris Nikolaevich,

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Samoilenko, Fatima Hanoum,

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Prokofiev, Sergei

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Prokofiev was a Russian composer, pianist, and conductor. From the description of Letters : to Fatima Hanoum Samoilenko and Boris Nikolaevich Samoilenko, 1919-1936. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612846006 Sergey Prokofiev (1891-1953), Russian composer. From the description of Letters to Ephraim F. Gottlieb, 1920-1940. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 38477994 Sergey Prokofiev was a Russian composer. From the description of Postcard ...

Codina, Carolina, d. 1989.

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