Preface

"Peter and the Wolf" is program music for the beginning of the modern age (20th century). Sergei Prokofiev lived from 1891 to 1953, he was born in Ukraine, lived and died in Moscow. He wrote the setting of the fairy tale for large orchestra in 1936.

The individual characters (Peter, Songbird, Duck, Cat, Grandfather, Wolf, Hunter) are introduced in memorable themes (little melodies). In the original, each character has its own timbre through the different instruments of the orchestr...