Formerly the copy of American pianist Eugene List, with his copious pencil markings, including many fingerings, throughout the score, and signed by him in pencil on the title page.

Of Prokofiev's six piano concertos, the third is the most well known. The composer himself premiered it in Chicago in 1921; its melding of diatonicism and Russian folk tunes immediately appealed to the American audience. In 1932, the concerto became the first of Prokofiev's works to be recorded.

American pianist Eugene List's broad repertory included works both old and new. He first made a name for himself by giving the American premiere of Shostakovich's First Piano Concerto at 16, having been asked by Leopold Stokowski to perform it with only six weeks notice. His career flourished thereafter. He performed at the Potsdam Conference for Truman, Churchill, and Stalin, collaborated with his violinist wife, Caroll Glenn, and was instrumental in the revival of Louis Moreau Gottschalk's music.