what is sergei prokofiev's religion?

Question

i need to know if he's a christian, catholic, etc. if you find out, please include the link to the website. thanks!

Answer 1

he's a communist.

http://www.answers.com/topic/sergei-prokofiev

Answer 2

motorcitymadman is correct. Prokofiev composed the score for Sergei Eisenstein's movie Alexander Nevsky, which was a purely Communist movie, extolling the courage and patriotism of the Worker Class.

The movie, Alexander Nevsky, had German medieval knights on a Crusade, converting the Russians by force. Naturally, the Russians win.

Answer 3

When he lived in France he became involved in Christian Science. Here is a comment from a messageboard debate (read the whole page for more details):

First "contact" Prokofiev - Christian Science was in 1924, Paris. And first was Lina, who visited Christian Scienca practitioner. Prokofiev himself is interested on self-control possibility given by Christian Science ideas, no more. You can read all about in Serge Prokofiev Diary 1907-1933 in Russian.

http://www.prokofiev.org/forum/viewmessages.cfm?Forum=3&Topic=470

Answer 4

I couldn't find any website that definitively answered this question. But I did find him associated with many Jewish webpages. He apparently composed many Jewish works. This does not necessarily mean he was Jewish, he might have just liked that style or something.

Here he is mentioned amidst composers of Jewish music:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secular_Jewish_culture

Sorry I wasn't able to find anything more certain.

Answer 5

He was apparently christened in a Russian Orthodox Church in his home town of Sontsovka. (see link below)

His later embrace of atheistic Soviet Communism, however, suggests that any religion he held to was fairly superficial.

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Answer 6

He was probably raised Russian Orthodox

Answer 7

who is sergei

Answer 8

none

Answer 9

Communist