Peter and the Wolf by Sergei Prokofiev Sergei Prokofiev was born on April 23, 1891. His parents were Sergei Alekseevich Prokofiev and Maria Grigoryevna Zhitkova. His mother was a very good pianist which is how he started to play and encouraged him to compose later on in life. At the age of three Prokofiev began to learn piano and in two years people could see some potential talent. He wrote his first Opera “The Giant” at nine years old. Lyadov and Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov was his piano teacher at thirteen years old at St. Petersburg Conservatory. Prokofiev composed and wrote many different pieces. Like Peter and the Wolf, The Love of the Three Oranges, Third Piano Concerto, War and Peace, ballets of Romeo and Juliet and Cinderella, and many