Prokofiev - Sonata No. 1 in F minor, Op. 1 - pianist Yefim Bronfman

The honour of his first opus number was one which Sergei Prokofiev, like Johannes Brahms, reserved for a piano sonata, although in neither case was it the composer’s first contribution to the genre. Even before enrolling at the St. Petersburg Conservatory, the Russian composer had completed a piano sonata and identified it as his first, following it up with half a dozen more in the course of the subsequent period, which he numbered systematically from one to six. “I don’t think you ought to bother numbering