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Mysteriously passive voice
"In 1948, Prokofiev was attacked for producing 'anti-democratic formalism'."
You don't say. By whom? Or do we want to avoid saying?
Considering the Russian invasion of Ukraine, is it accurate to describe Prokofiev as a "Russian" composer? Honest question, not trying to revise things if that is true.
He was born in Ukraine, but was he ethnically Russian or Ukrainian? I think it's important to be accurate here for the sake of not inadvertently supporting cultural erasure.
Even if he was ethnically Russian, he was born in Ukraine, so it seems fair to list him in the "Ukrainian Composers" category. Modern Ukraine is not an ethnostate. — Preceding
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Prokofiev was born in what was then a part of the Russian Empire and was legally a Russian citizen; he remained one until his death (a Soviet Russian, anyway). Denoting him as a "Ukrainian" would be as anachronistic as denoting
Immanuel Kant a "Russian" because he happened to be born in a city that is today part of Russia. Discourse about Prokofiev during his life and long after referred to him exclusively as a Russian composer. For example,
Alfred Schnittke, himself a Russian-born multiethnic artist, referred to Prokofiev as "the greatest Russian composer of the time" ("On Prokofiev" in A Schnittke Reader, p. 62). Prokofiev's second wife
Mira Mendelson makes no mention of him being "Ukrainian" in her memoirs and diaries. (Interestingly enough, Mendelson herself was born in Ukraine.)
Simon Morrison wrote that the Kremlin viewed Prokofiev as "an ambassador-at-large of Russian (Soviet) culture" (The People's Artist: Prokofiev's Soviet Years, pg. 1). I don't believe Prokofiev himself identified as Ukrainian or identified closely with its culture; neither did his parents, apparently. —
CurryTime7-24 (
talk) 01:24, 5 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Is it not possible to at least call him Soviet-Russian composer?
95.118.62.132 (
talk) 23:38, 9 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Unlike Shostakovich, for whom a similarly worded compromise was included in the lead of his article (“Soviet-era Russian composer”), a significant portion of Prokofiev’s professional career occurred before the Soviet Union existed. After the October Revolution, he spent the next 19 years in exile, first in the United States, then later in Europe. Altogether these total 27 years, versus the 17 he spent in the Soviet Union. Therefore, “Soviet-Russian” or some such would not be an accurate designation for Prokofiev. It’s also a bit of a mouthful and potentially confusing. Other editors may feel differently, of course. —
CurryTime7-24 (
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Ukrainian vs Russian
He was born in Ukraini. How come that in the text say that he was Russian?
89.152.100.251 (
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Because as I explained to the previous editor above, Prokofiev was born in what was then a part of the Russian Empire; thus, he was legally a Russian citizen and remained one until his death. Ukraine at the time of his birth was not independent and its status as a constituent part of the Russian Empire was not disputed. In addition, Prokofiev, while late in life expressing several times the desire to see his birthplace again, neither seemed to personally identify as Ukrainian nor identified with its culture. His parents, too, seemed to identify more as Russians; among the languages that he learned at home, Ukrainian is not documented to be one of them. —
CurryTime7-24 (
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When he was born, the Ukraine as a country would not exist for another 100 years. I doubt that he could even speak Ukrainian. He lived in Russia, the United States, France, and the Soviet Union, but never in Ukraine
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Projofiev is NOT a russian composerget your facts straight Projofiev was born as ukrainian i know very well you will ignore this fact and continue w russian — but the truth is Prokofiev was ukrainian/ american composer having studied in russia Now who is right you are me? The history books got it wrong which is no big surprise to me paul kenner louisiana
2600:8807:4801:C900:7900:674:B1B6:16AC (
talk) 00:35, 28 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Hello, why is there no Infobox about this great composer? What are the issues?
Er nesto (
talk) 20:18, 22 May 2022 (UTC)reply
Please read
this for more details on the infobox issue. —
CurryTime7-24 (
talk) 22:07, 22 May 2022 (UTC)reply
Still born in present-day Ukraine.
Regardless of Curry's insistence, it's only reasonable to say Russian composer born in present-day Ukraine
76.11.2.233 (
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And how is this relevant to his notability?
Mellk (
talk) 21:34, 19 June 2022 (UTC)reply
It's clear that a single 'editor' has decided to monopolise the subject of Prokofiev's nationality and won't tolerate the slightest compromise on his insistence that the composer was ONLY Russian and not also Ukrainian. By that measure, the early Americans of the late 18th century would be British and not American (admittedly some of them did think that, though most didn't). Ukraine means lower border lands and the Rus started in Kiev, not Moscow. If anything, Ukraine has precedence in the nationality parade.
86.140.171.159 (
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My only concern here is to chronicle history accurately for readers.
Boris Lyatoshinsky, for example, spent most of his life in the Ukraine, was deeply involved in cultivating its cultural life as something distinct from Russia, and on top of all that regularly found inspiration in Ukrainian folklore for his music. Prokofiev, aside from Semyon Kotko and his personal nostalgia for his pre-Revolutionary youth, appeared to have been little concerned with the Ukraine and its development.
Nikolai Gogol often wrote about his being Ukrainian and how he felt like a foreigner among Russians in
Saint Petersburg. But Prokofiev never expressed anything of the kind in his letters and diaries. The fact remains—and evidence abounds attesting to this—that not only was Prokofiev legally a Russian, then a Soviet citizen, but that he also repeatedly described himself and was described by others as Russian, and that in his final decades his life and art were deeply intertwined specifically with the cultural life of the Russian SFSR. Because the place Prokofiev was born in happens to no longer be Russian does not mean that somehow he is also no longer Russian. Maybe you think that
Garibaldi is a French national hero? —
CurryTime7-24 (
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Admittedly Prokofiev was born in an area that was Russian speaking, but that has always been contested as part of Ukraine. This is also true of many areas in Eastern Europe where Russian speaking minorities coexist within small countries desperate to remain independent of Russia. I am British by nationality but I am also English by ethnicity. Similarly, in the same way Prokofiev may have been Russian by nationality but Ukrainian by ethnicity. Like Prokofiev, I can incorporate both and would not insist on an autistic and pedantic definition of either, and certainly not to the point where I was threatening other 'editors' with a block if they didn't agree with me.
2A00:23C5:DA1D:9301:61F9:D82:C86C:F9C6 (
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The key word is "may." He may have been what you purport he was, but unless you can provide evidence from a reputable source confirming that, it will remain an unverifiable fringe opinion. You can lob personal insults against me to your heart’s delight, but that will not change the fact that Prokofiev was Russian by nationality and ethnicity. As frustrating as it may be for you, Wikipedia is not a place to settle nationalistic scores or to
crusade against perceived historical injustices. —
CurryTime7-24 (
talk) 13:49, 28 September 2022 (UTC)reply
This is simply self righteous blather and bluster. What verifiable sources do you need for knowing where the man was born for goodness sake? In what way is being born in Ukraine an unverified fringe opinion? He either was or wasn't. Nationalism and the current conflict in Ukraine has nothing to do with Prokofiev's birthplace. Please do not threaten other contributors with blocking or you will be reported to Wikipedia.
2A00:23C5:DA1D:9301:9D85:A09C:B819:8B1C (
talk) 14:05, 28 September 2022 (UTC)reply
According to your logic,
E. T. A. Hoffmann,
Otto Nicolai, and
Frederick I of Prussia would all be "Russian," not German. Again, whether we like it or not, the facts confirm Prokofiev was Russian and was born in a territory that was Russia at the time.
A passage from
Leon Botstein's essay "Beyond Death and Evil: Prokofiev's Spirituality and Christian Science" in Sergey Prokofiev and his World (pp. 532–533) is worth quoting from:
Prokofiev’s status as a Russian patriot—the manner in which he considered himself distinctly Russian—is confirmed and clarified by [his] diaries. […] At the same time, Prokofiev possessed his own enormous nostalgia for pre-1917 St. Petersburg and a concomitant sense of Russia's imperial destiny and grandeur. In his trips to Russia in 1927 and 1929, Prokofiev responded more to the continuities than to the changes. He felt overwhelmingly attached to the Russian urban landscape and the mores of his contemporaries in the intelligentsia.
However we may personally feel about it today, Prokofiev saw himself as Russian. His return to his native country in 1936—settling in the
Russian SFSR instead of the
Ukrainian SSR—speaks for itself. —
CurryTime7-24 (
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Perhaps we got off on the wrong foot, so to speak, and I appreciate now that the warning messages over editing were probably AI generated and not necessarily indicative of personal rudeness and hostility to differing opinions? Your argument is well resourced and quoted, though of course ALL opinions, including those of the references we quote, are subjective. Our differences it would seem are purely temporal and are premised upon how a person may or may not have viewed himself in his lifetime. The only addition I would make is that Ukrainian nationhood has a proud separate history that goes back over a millennium and that Mr Sergei Prokofiev would have been aware of this. Even the present number one enemy of Muscovy, Mr Volodymyr Zelensky, is ethnically Russian and speaks Russian as his first language, even though he is VERY much Ukrainian. I would put Prokofiev in the same category.
2A00:23C5:DA1D:9301:9D85:A09C:B819:8B1C (
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2A00:23C5:DA1D:9301:9D85:A09C:B819:8B1C, please demonstrate that the majority of
reliablesecondary sources describe Prokofiev as a "Ukro-Russian composer" or "Ukrainian composer", otherwise stop wasting the time of others. This talkpage is
NOTAFORUM. Aza24 (talk) 07:36, 30 September 2022 (UTC)reply
If you dont want me 'wasting' time then please learn how to be polite. If people think my questions are a waste of time, then why are they so pedantic on insisting on their own viewpoints with regard to Prokofiev's origins and constantly trying to change the page to fit their view? If this talkpage is not a forum then what is a 'talkpage' for goodness sake?
2A00:23C5:DA1D:9301:D123:1AB6:5C09:FFA (
talk) 20:52, 2 October 2022 (UTC)reply
Zelensky is not even ethnically Russian. Where did you get that from? And that is a really bad comparison because Zelensky actually is a Ukrainian national.
Mellk (
talk) 00:16, 14 October 2022 (UTC)reply
Subject of nationality
Nationality needs to be discussed as consensus hasn't been reached and no one editor is entitled to railroad that consensus. The following link is useful in determining the redefinition now being discussed.
Did you read the article? There is no "redefinition".
Mellk (
talk) 00:12, 14 October 2022 (UTC)reply
Yes I did read the article and 'redefinition' is simply my word to explain it, and not a pedantic device to insist on my view. As I have said, if any self appointed 'editor' can present evidence of their accredited specialisation, then I will stand corrected with enthusiasm.
Historicallibrarian (
talk) 15:16, 14 October 2022 (UTC)reply
It actually is your pedantic device to insist upon your personal view. Evidence abounds as to Prokofiev's nationality in the lead. We had this discussion before. (I assume you were formerly the IP editor that expressed themselves in similar fashion on this point.) Evidence has already been provided. If you can find verifiable evidence that Prokofiev was an ethnic Ukrainian and a citizen of an independent Ukraine upon his birth in 1891, please do share it here. —
CurryTime7-24 (
talk) 16:26, 14 October 2022 (UTC)reply
This is classic 'whataboutism'. Evidence has not been provided and the scraps you give are merely the opinions of writers you quote. Its clear from your obsessive responses that you feel that you own this subject. I just feel sorry for anyone else who tries to have input! Such is the danger of wikipedia and its army of basement bedroom 'editors'.
Historicallibrarian (
talk) 16:30, 14 October 2022 (UTC)reply
This is sourced in the article, I am not sure why you are asking for some kind of evidence, it is not even a controversial claim. I am also not sure how that is a "whataboutism". The guideline is
MOS:ETHNICITY. Was he of Ukrainian ethnicity, citizenship, or was his birthplace that is now modern-day Ukraine relevant to his notability? Not at all.
Mellk (
talk) 16:58, 14 October 2022 (UTC)reply
Have it your way! Like Curry Talk you no doubt regard the subject of Prokofiev as your sole right of possession.
86.128.96.25 (
talk) 16:59, 14 October 2022 (UTC)reply
It is not my way. This is what the sources say and is also according to WP policies.
Mellk (
talk) 18:02, 14 October 2022 (UTC)reply
No doubt policies you interpret to fit your assertions! Lets just leave it now as we will never agree.
Historicallibrarian (
talk) 18:03, 14 October 2022 (UTC)reply
To start off, you need to show that majority of sources call him a Ukrainian. Then this can be properly discussed.
Mellk (
talk) 18:08, 14 October 2022 (UTC)reply
I tried that initially to no avail. Discussion it seems comes after a decision by two 'editors' in particular to effectively lock the editing process in favour of their assertions.
86.128.96.25 (
talk) 18:12, 14 October 2022 (UTC)reply
Not really, from what I can see, you gave one source (more of an opinion article) that describes as Ukrainian but in an "anachronistic" sense.
Mellk (
talk) 18:17, 14 October 2022 (UTC)reply
Yes but I have discussed this here before without the benefit of an account. Your accomplice 'CurryTime7-24' noted this. My so called 'opinion article' is no more or less valid than the sources listed here on this page. What is any article, if not an opinion piece?
Historicallibrarian (
talk) 18:20, 14 October 2022 (UTC)reply
If you are going to describe another editor as an "accomplice", you may want to review
WP:NPA.
Mellk (
talk) 18:27, 14 October 2022 (UTC)reply
Im afraid that's a bit rich coming from you, but accomplice seems like a perfectly reasonable word in view of the situation. Directing me to volumes of wikipedia code is meaningless.
Historicallibrarian (
talk) 18:55, 14 October 2022 (UTC)reply
Got it, you are just a time waster.
Mellk (
talk) 05:45, 15 October 2022 (UTC)reply
Perhaps you ought to look at WP:NPA as now who is resorting to unpleasantness?
Historicallibrarian (
talk) 08:14, 15 October 2022 (UTC)reply
You simply are a person who thinks he owns the subject and won't tolerate dissension and resorts to rudeness when you can't get your own way.
Historicallibrarian (
talk) 08:17, 15 October 2022 (UTC)reply
His nationality was Russian; he was born in the Russian Empire, which makes him a Russian citizen. Please consult the sources in the lead for more information. "Consensus" won't change historical fact. Has consensus determined whether
Aram Khachaturian was Georgian instead of Soviet and Armenian yet? —
CurryTime7-24 (
talk) 05:34, 14 October 2022 (UTC)reply
No but it is you who insists on 'consensus'. Im happy to leave the subject alone and will humbly stand corrected if you can demonstrate some professional credentialisation on this subject?
Historicallibrarian (
talk) 15:14, 14 October 2022 (UTC)reply
I stumbled on this discussion by chance. I have some sympathy with Historicallibrarian’s position. The facts aren’t in dispute – the argument is about policy, i.e. what nationality to ascribe to someone who lived when national boundaries were not what they are now. Wikipedia needs to be truthful, unbiased and consistent; “reliable” references written before the breakup of the Soviet Union really don’t help.
Florian Leopold Gassmann seems to be an analogous case. I assume that by Currytime’s reasoning he would be described as “Austro-Hungarian”, but he’s actually described as “a German-speaking Bohemian composer”. Even so, I think it might be more misleading to describe Prokofiev as Ukrainian than as Russian, so I’d be inclined to leave the article as it is, but delete the 3 references in support of Prokofiev’s Russianness because they give an air of dogmatism to a rather tenuous claim.
Colin.champion (
talk) 14:36, 13 December 2022 (UTC)reply
Gassmann isn't analogous at all. He was Bohemian. Moreover, the Kingdom of Bohemia was formally independent during his lifetime. It was in a
personal, not a
real union with the Holy Roman Empire (not Austria-Hungary, which did not exist until nearly a century after Gassmann's death). An analogous situation would be if there were suddenly a push to recognize him as
Czech, despite the Czech Republic not existing during his lifetime and lack of evidence confirming that he personally identified as "Czech".
Interestingly enough, I was thinking about this issue the other day when I was reading about Prokofiev's nomination for the 1941
Stalin Prize. According to
Marina Frolova-Walker, Prokofiev's Alexander Nevsky made the short list during the second and third round of nominations, being demoted to the second-class nominees in the latter. When the short list was drawn up after the fourth round of nomination discussions, the work was removed in favor of Ukrainian composer
Levko Revutsky's
Symphony No. 2. The rationale given for this by Chairman of the
Committee on Arts AffairsMikhail Khrapchenko [
ru was that there had been a lack of representation from "national" (i.e. non-Russian) composers. The final list of second-class nominees were all from outside the
RSFSR. The outcome disappointed Prokofiev and while he tried to reverse it, it is telling that he did not do so based on the idea that he himself was a "national" (i.e. Ukrainian or non-Russian) composer. Shortly thereafter,
Nikolai Myaskovsky made a speech to the Union of Composers of the RSFSR defending Prokofiev, wherein he described his music as being part of the "Russian classics". (Stalin's Music Prize: Soviet Culture and Politics, pp. 46–60, 63–67) —
CurryTime7-24 (
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The Reddit thread
linked (when read in full) illustrates a good argument for changing which of Prokofiev's two birthdays (or pairs of birthdays with OS) this article should consider the principal one (see note 2 below the article). We are currently in disagreement with the Encyclopædia Britannica, because of citation 6, an entry in a "concise" 1990s dictionary - potentially overestimating the trustworthiness of birth certificates and underestimating the importance of Prokofiev's own view of his birthday.
PurpleQuaver (
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The argument made there appears to be that certificates can be wrong. One's own beliefs can also be wrong. That doesn't seem to be a strong reason to change what's here. What is the balance of sourcing for the two possible dates?
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@
CurryTime7-24: I think that the Ukrainian name of Sergei could be added. For example, in the article
Leonid Brezhnev, even he self-described himself as a Russian, there's also a Ukrainian name added which probably is because he was born in Ukraine.
PoisonHK✉Sapiens dominabitur astris 16:01, 9 March 2024 (UTC)reply
According to the sources in the article, SSP's parents were ethnic Russians. At the time of his birth, the region he was born was a legally recognized part of Russia and often referred to as such. Moreover, although SSP referred to himself at times as a "guy from the Steppes", he neither ever proclaimed himself to be of Ukrainian ethnicity nor did he ever claim to speak the language. To the best of my knowledge, there is no testimony from friends, colleagues, etc. that confirm he spoke Ukrainian. Because of that, the transcription of SSP's name in Ukrainian Cyrillic that @
PoisonHK: added a short while ago may be anachronistic. For what it's worth, their user page may suggest that this might be a
WP:NOTADVOCACY matter. —
CurryTime7-24 (
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I can't explain the rationale for the Brezhnev edit. It has no bearing here any way per
WP:OTHERSTUFF. —
CurryTime7-24 (
talk) 16:08, 9 March 2024 (UTC)reply
About your claim of "he was born was a legally recognized part of Russia and often referred to as such", I just want you to clarify did you mean the
Russian Empire, or the
modern Russian State.
PoisonHK✉Sapiens dominabitur astris 16:18, 9 March 2024 (UTC)reply
At the time, SSP's birthplace was Russia. In 1936, he chose to repatriate to the RSFSR rather than the Ukrainian SSR. It's worth noting that in 1940 when he was first nominated for a Stalin Prize, the jury dropped him after the first round because there were too many Russians nominated and not enough "national" composers. Instead, the switched him out with
Levko Revutsky, precisely because he was Ukrainian, whereas Prokofiev was not. —
CurryTime7-24 (
talk) 16:31, 9 March 2024 (UTC)reply
I think my argument of Brezhnev doesn't comply to WP:OTHERSTUFF since Brezhnev's article is a GA. Moreover, SSP was born in modern Ukrainian borders. In fact, many articles of anti-Ukrainian people or Russians born in modern Ukrainian borders got a Ukrainian name just like Brezhnev.
PoisonHK✉Sapiens dominabitur astris 16:44, 9 March 2024 (UTC)reply
According to that logic, Brezhnev's Ukrainian name should be dropped from his article because SSP's article, which is also GA, does not include one. For that matter, why not add Russian Cyrillic to
Immanuel Kant's article, since its subject was born in a city now part of Russia? Anyway, this is a discussion about SSP, not other people. There is no evidence that he ever used a Ukrainian name. He was not an ethnic Ukrainian, there is no evidence that he spoke Ukrainian, and his first Stalin Prize nomination failed because he was not Ukrainian. —
CurryTime7-24 (
talk) 17:15, 9 March 2024 (UTC)reply
Yes, Immanuel Kant's article shouldn't have a Russian native name, that's because Kaliningrad was never a Russian city before WW2. In this case, Sergei was born in a formerly majority Ukrainian-speaking region (before the
Holodomor during 1932-33 fyi), that's why I do think the name should be added.
PoisonHK✉Sapiens dominabitur astris 17:47, 9 March 2024 (UTC)reply
Pronunciation and Brthday
I believe that what appears as superscripts [n 2] and [n 3] should appear in the article body, [n 2] for consistency with multiple other articles that show pronunciation info in-line, and [n 3] because it can interest people to know about his birthday.
I'm not experienced enough to do the editing myself.
[n 3] While Sergei Prokofiev himself believed 11/23 April to be his birth date, the posthumous discovery of his birth certificate showed that he was actually born four days later, on 15/27 April.
AK2022 (
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I agree with you, but it seems there must have been some consensus to indicate this information in superscripts. At least, I gather that from a number of articles that make similar use of superscripts (e.g.
Dmitri Shostakovich,
Vladimir Horowitz,
Igor Stravinsky). —
CurryTime7-24 (
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