"In fact, one could argue that in the Sixth Prokofiev turned toward the Romantic concept of the sonata, with its traditional exploration of the conflict between the individual and fate or other impersonal forces beyond one’s control. The mechanistic qualities of Prokofiev’s music, familiar to us from his earlier works, play the crucial role in this drama; they collide with the warmly human thematic material, suppressing and brutalizing it. The carnival atmosphere or the “masques” of the early sonatas and the objective neoclassicism of the Fifth are abandoned, never to return in Prokofiev’s subsequent works in this genre."
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Boris Berman, Prokofiev’s Piano Sonatas : a guide for the listener and the performer (2008), "Sonata No. 6 in A Major, op. 82"
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