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Thus in Prokofieff the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics produced one of the great composers of the Twentieth Century.

That his moods, even in his early years, are those of his people, does him honor, as his music honors those who inspired it.

That he mastered every aspect of his medium according to his own great talents and contemporary judgments, is a good and solid symbol of his people under the tremendous pressures of proclaiming and practising the rigors of a new culture ; ;

and perhaps of even greater significance -- his music is strong 20th-Century evidence of the effectiveness of Evolution, based on a broad Traditionalism for the creative art of music.