Chair of St.

Peter School
4th Quarter
Music and Arts

Featured Composer

Sergei Prokofiev

 He was a Russian Soviet composer, pianist and conductor.

 His greatest interest was opera.

 His music is Classical in style.

 His mother, a good pianist, became his first mentor in music.

 He was born on April 23, 1891 in Sontsovka, Ukraine.

Featured Composition
Peter and the Wolf

 It is a symphonic fairy tale for children.

 In the composition, the narrator tells a children's story, while the orchestra illustrates it.

 The genre of this composition is classical music.

 It is scored for the following orchestra; brass, percussion, strings, and woodwinds.

 Prokofiev wrote this composition to help children get to know the instruments of the
orchestra.
Featured Artist
Diego Velasquez

 He was a Spanish painter.

 He was an individualistic artist

of the contemporary Baroque
period.

 He began to paint in a precise tenebrist style, later developing

a freer manner characterized by bold brushwork.

 Velázquez is often described as

a kind of forerunner of
Impressionism.

 He was born on June 6, 1599,

in Seville, Spain.

Featured Artwork

An Old Woman Cooking Eggs

 It is a genre painting, depicts aspects of everyday life by portraying ordinary people engaged
in common activities.

 The painting is in the Scottish National Gallery in Edinburgh.

 The material used for this painting is oil on canvas.

 It shows the influence of chiaroscuro, with a strong light source coming in from the left
illuminating the woman, her utensils and the poaching eggs, while throwing the background
and the boy standing to her right into deep shadow.