Sergei Prokofiev's Alexander Nevsky

by Kevin Bartig

Audiences have long enjoyed Sergei Prokofiev's musical score for Sergei Eisenstein's 1938 film Alexander Nevsky. The historical epic cast a thirteenth-century Russian victory over invading Teutonic Knights as an allegory of contemporary Soviet strength in the face of Nazi warmongering. Prokofiev's and Eisenstein's work proved an enormous success, both as a collaboration of two of the twentieth century's most prominent artists and as a means to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019026957X
• ISBN13: 9780190269579
• Release Date: October 2017
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 174 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 8.1"