Alexander Scriabin
Mystic, visionary, virtuoso, and composer, Scriabin dedicated his life to creating musical works which would, as he believed, open the portals of the spiritual world. Scriabin took piano lessons as a child, joining, in 1884, Nikolay Zverov's class, where Rachmaninov was a fellow student. From 1888 to 1892, Scriabin studied at the Moscow Conservatory, where his teachers included Arensky, Taneyev, and Safonov. Although Scriabin's hand could not easily stretch beyond an octave, he developed into a prodigious pianist, launching an international concert career in 1894. Scriabin started composing during his Conservatory years. Mostly inspired by Chopin, his early works include nocturnes, mazurkas, preludes, and etudes for piano. Typical examples of Romantic music for the piano, these works nevertheless reveal the composer's strong individuality. Toward the end of the century, Scriabin started writing orchestral works, earning a solid reputation as a composer, and obtaining a professorship at the Moscow Conservatory in 1898. In 1903, however, Scriabin abandoned his wife and their four children and embarked on a European journey with a young admirer, Tatyana Schloezer. During his sojourn in Western Europe, which lasted six years, Scriabin started developing an original, highly personal musical idiom, experimenting with new harmonic structures and searching for new sonorities. Among the works composed during this time was the Divine Poem.
In 1905, Scriabin discovered the theosophical teachings of Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, which became the intellectual foundation of his musical and philosophical efforts. In true Romantic tradition, he sought to situate his work as a composer in the wider spiritual and intellectual context of his age. Previously influenced by Nietzsche's ideas about the advent of a superhuman being, Scriabin embraced theosophy as an intellectual framework for his profound feelings about humankind's quest for God. Works from this period, exemplified by the Poem of Ecstasy (1908) and Prometheus (1910), reflect Scriabin's conception of music as a bridge to mystical ecstasy. While the ideas underlying his works may seem far-fetched, Scriabin's musical language included some fascinating, and very tangible, innovations, such as chords based on fourths and unexpected chromatic effects. Lacking an inner forward-moving force, Scriabin's later works nevertheless fascinate the listener by harmonic transformations which aim to reflect certain undefinable aspects of human consciousness. In addition, the composer, who strongly believed in the synaesthetic nature of art, experimented with sounds and colors, indicating, for example, lighting specification for the performance of particular works. Indeed, Scriabin's interest in color was hardly academic, considering that , as an orchestrator, he exploited the full potential of orchestral color. While Scriabin never quite crossed the threshold to atonality, his music nevertheless replaced the traditional concept of tonality by an intricate system of chords, some of which (e.g., the "mystic chord": C-F sharp-B flat-E-A-D) had an esoteric meaning. Scriabin's gradual move into realms beyond traditional tonality can be clearly heard in his ten piano sonatas; the last five, composed during 1912-1913, are without key signatures and certainly contain atonal moments. In 1915, Scriabin died in of septicemia caused by a carbuncle on his lip. Among his unfinished project was Mysterium, a grandiose religious synthesis of all arts which would herald the birth of a new world.
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Piano Classics for Babies
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Alexander Scriabin study in C sharp minor Op 2 No 1 (Studio Recording)
Alexander Scriabin, Vladimir Horowitz
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Classical Brain Power - Over 7 Hours of Music for Concentration, Productive Learning, Studying and Working
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Classical Stress Relief: 99 Must-Have Classical Meditation & Relaxation
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100 Must-Have Lullaby Baby Classics
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Gilels Plays Scriabin Sonatas Nos. 3, 4, Preludes
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Russian Piano School: Valery Kastelsky, Vol. 1
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Piano Meditation - Scriabin, Shostakovich, Tchaikovsky
Dimitri Chostakovitch, Alexander Scriabin, Pyotr Illitch Tchaïkovski
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Scriabin: Piano Sonata No. 3 in F-Sharp Minor, Op. 23 – Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition
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Alexander Scriabin, 24 Preludes, Op.11, 5 Preludes, Op. 74, Poem Op,32 (Produced)
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Scriabin: 12 Études - Myaskovsky: Piano Sonata No. 3 - Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 1
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99 Must-Have Gloomy Day Classics
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Russian Piano School: Heinrich Neuhaus, Vol. 4
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Valeri Kastelsky Plays Scriabin
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Scriabin: The Poem of Ecstasy - Amirov: Azerbaijan Mugam
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Scriabin: Symphony No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 43 (Digitally Remastered)
Moscow RTV Large Symphony Orchestra, Vladimir Fedoseyev
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Etude in D-sharp minor, Op. 8 No. 12
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The Caswell Collection, Vol. 5 (1906-1926)
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Iberia Suite Triana
Isaac Albéniz, Alexander Scriabin, Sir Eugene Goossens, Philharmonia Orchestra
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Scriabin: Etude in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 2, No. 1 (Digitally Remastered)
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Alexander Scriabin Performs Original Piano Works
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