He reveals his own developing aesthetic principles through his assessments of the works of others, even as he composes such early masterpieces as the First and

Sergey Prokofiev, a compulsive diarist and gifted and idiosyncratic writer, possessed an incorrigibly sardonic curiosity about individuals and events. When he l

The second volume in Prokofiev's recently uncovered diaries covers the period from 1915 to 1923 - a momentous epoch in European history, in the personal story o