The Tale of the Buffoon Who Outjested Seven Buffoons

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The Tale of the Buffoon Who Outjested Seven Buffoons

ballet by Prokofiev

Also known as: “The Buffoon”

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In Sergey Prokofiev: Pre-Revolutionary period
The ballet The Tale of the Buffoon Who Outjested Seven Buffoons (1915; reworked as The Buffoon, 1915–20), also commissioned by Diaghilev, was based on a folktale; it served as a stimulus for Prokofiev’s searching experiments in the renewal of Russian music. Despite Diaghilev’s assertion of the priority…
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