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Sergei Prokofiev
Sergei Prokofiev was a Russian composer and pianist who left Russia after the revolution and returned to settle in the Soviet Union in 1936. His works include the ballet Romeo and Juliet, the children's tale Peter and the Wolf, the music for Eisenstein's film Alexander Nevsky, seven symphonies and the opera War and Peace. Condemned for formalism in 1948, he died on the same day as Stalin.
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