Sergei Prokofiev, the composer’s grandson, has died

Sergei Prokofiev, the composer’s grandson, has died

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norman lebrecht

July 31, 2014

A poet by first inclination, Sergei Olegovich Prokofiev discovered Rudolf Steiner’s school of anthroposophy as a young man in Moscow and devoted his life to studying Steinerian thought. A prolific author, after the fall of communism he founded the Anthroposophical Society in Russia.

He died at 60, after three years of severe illness and was buried at Dornach, in Switzerland.

Appreciation here.

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