Talk:Symphony No. 6 (Prokofiev)

"The symphony was written as an elegy of the tragedies of World War Two." Source?

Huh?
The final sentence says, "Some writers say this symphony has a tragic ending, but others consider the finale to be similar in mood to the classical symphony of Prokofiev.[1] and say that the final movement has an optimistic joviality reminiscent of the symphonies of Joseph Haydn." This is unsourced and, to my ears, is almost surreal. I will delete it if nobody objects. Opus131 (talk) 05:18, 1 April 2012 (UTC)

I entirely agree with this deletion, the sentence makes no sense whatsoever. MUSIKVEREIN (talk) 09:51, 1 April 2012 (UTC)

Well, nobody objected for most of a year, so the deletion is done. "Optimistic joviality" indeed! Opus131 (talk) 04:03, 20 March 2013 (UTC)

Article rewrite
Earlier today, I took it upon myself to rewrite this article. A lot of unsourced statements, personal opinions, and unencyclopedic material needed to be removed. At the same time, very little was meaningfully discussed about the symphony's genesis, structure (which can still be expanded upon, but time did not permit me to do that myself at this moment), and critical reception. Hopefully this will be accepted as an improvement upon the old article. Still a few things to do, which I hope to tweak and expand upon in the next few days. CurryTime7-24 (talk) 02:51, 1 February 2021 (UTC)
 * I like your improvements, though I have restored some of the non-controversial things you removed (instrumentation, recording, authority control, Sergei Prokofiev navbox). Thanks, intforce (talk) 03:12, 1 February 2021 (UTC)