"In 1944 to [Prokofiev’s] great joy the pianist Maria Grinberg gave a performance in the Small Hall of the Moscow Conservatoire of his long-neglected Fifth Sonata for piano. After the recital he asked Myaskovsky, who sat next to him, whether there were many ‘false notes’ in the sonata. Myaskovsky replied that ‘all traces of the scarlet fever had disappeared.’ Nevertheless in 1952 before the publication of a new edition of the sonata Sergei Sergeyevich decided to revise it and wrote a new version. He often told me how pleased he was that he had rewritten that sonata."
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Mira Mendelson-Prokofieva, In: S. I. Shlifshtein, ed., S. Prokofiev: Autobiography, Articles, Reminiscences, trans. Rose Prokofieva
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