Alexander Nikolayevich Scriabin or Aleksandr Scriabin (Russian: Александр Н… Read Full Bio ↴Alexander Nikolayevich Scriabin or Aleksandr Scriabin (Russian: Александр Николаевич Скрябин; 1872-1915, Moscow) was a Russian composer and pianist.
Many of Scriabin's works are written for the piano; the earliest pieces resemble Frédéric Chopin and include music in many forms that Chopin himself employed, such as the etude, the prelude and the mazurka. Later works, however, are strikingly original, employing very unusual harmonies and textures. The development of Scriabin's voice or style can be followed in his ten piano sonatas: the earliest are in a fairly conventional late-Romantic idiom and show the influence of Chopin and Franz Liszt, but the later ones move into new territory.
Scriabin has been often considered to have had synaesthesia, a condition wherein one experiences sensation in one sense in response to stimulus in another; it is most likely, however, that Alexander Scriabin did not actually experience this. His thought-out system of relating musical notes to colours lines up with the circle of fifths. Prometheus: Poem of Fire includes a part for a 'clavier à lumières' (keyboard of lights) though this is not often featured in performances.
Many of Scriabin's works are written for the piano; the earliest pieces resemble Frédéric Chopin and include music in many forms that Chopin himself employed, such as the etude, the prelude and the mazurka. Later works, however, are strikingly original, employing very unusual harmonies and textures. The development of Scriabin's voice or style can be followed in his ten piano sonatas: the earliest are in a fairly conventional late-Romantic idiom and show the influence of Chopin and Franz Liszt, but the later ones move into new territory.
Scriabin has been often considered to have had synaesthesia, a condition wherein one experiences sensation in one sense in response to stimulus in another; it is most likely, however, that Alexander Scriabin did not actually experience this. His thought-out system of relating musical notes to colours lines up with the circle of fifths. Prometheus: Poem of Fire includes a part for a 'clavier à lumières' (keyboard of lights) though this is not often featured in performances.
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2. Pièces op. 57: I. Désir
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mark gatti
Ice skating on a frozen cloud—only Scriabin could make it possible.
Stephan Beneking
wonderful performance, thank you for sharing these interesting morceaux!
N SS
Very electronic performance as for such the morceaux! 😢😂🔌💾🎹
T. Alexander E.
1:17 most middle Scriabin era chord ever
Sean Rooney
Won't somebody PLEASE think of the children
Arastoo Khosrobeik
what a nice simple ironic "C-Major" at the End !!!!
Shawn Mand
Nothing ironic about it. It's the key of the piece.
Gabriele
@Shawn Mand this is atonal music. Late Scriabin. There very few of Dominant harmony 😀 you can understand the piece by the "sounds", the phrasing and progressions
Gabriele
It's a sort of, shoot. All this mess before in my heart and mind? But it's easy, everybody dies soon or less. So ill taks it easy too
Prepcoin_nl
It's not ironic and it's not single. It's approached by a long and obvious II - V - I through transpositions of the primary motif, and there's another C Major chord at 2:17 at the end of the first A Section, also approached by as a V - I. Even though tonality became more and more obscure in Scriabin's music throughout his career, he never fully abandoned notions of it.