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List of compositions by Sergei Prokofiev

Wikimedia list of musical works by composer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 2, 2026
Entity authorityQ2050782 ↗
Source-derived summary

This is a list of musical compositions by the 20th-century Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev.

By genre

Operas

The Giant (1900; only vocal score survives)

On Desert Islands (1900–02; unfinished)

A Feast in Time of Plague (1903, rev. 1908–09; unfinished)

Undina (1904–07)

Maddalena, Op. 13 (1911–13; unfinished)

Igrok (The Gambler), Op. 24 (1915–16, rev. 1927); after Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Love for Three Oranges, Op. 33 (1919)

The Fiery Angel, Op. 37 (1919–27)

Semyon Kotko, Op. 81 (1939)

Betrothal in a Monastery, Op. 86 (1940–41)

War and Peace, Op.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “List of compositions by Sergei Prokofiev” is wikimedia list of musical works by composer. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through List, compositions and Sergei, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1900, 1903, 1908, 1904—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, List, compositions and Sergei is the immediate research focus.
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The phrase “wikimedia list of musical works by composer” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

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The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 2, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2050782. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1900, 1903, 1908 and 1904.

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This entry incorporates text from “List of compositions by Sergei Prokofiev” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.