Von der Filmmusik zur Konzertsuite: Semantische Verschiebungen in Sergej Prokofjews Kompositionen zu Leutnant Kishe

Sergei Prokofiev’s varied oeuvre includes eight compositions for film, whereby his work with director Sergei Eisenstein has for a considerable time claimed the center of attention in film studies and musicology. His early film music, on the other hand, is still almost entirely unknown. This article focuses on Prokofiev’s first film score, which was composed in 1933 for the monarchical satire, Lieutenant Kijé. The relationship between the pictoral sequence and music and how they together convey the satiric elements of the plot will be examined. Thereafter the focus turns to the structural and semantic transformations that arose in the concert suite Prokofiev adapted from the film score in 1934.