"Lieutenant Kije"
Statue of Russian Soldier
"Lieutenant Kije Suite" was actually composed by
Prokofiev for the film "Lieutenant Kije"(1933). The film tells the
life story of a Russian soldier named Kije from his birth to his triumphs
to his death. The music is obviously programmatic, which means that it
was written for a specific reason. The opposite of programmatic music
is absolute music, which is music written solely for the purpose of writing
music. Prokofiev was one of the first world renowned composers to
compose a film score.
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