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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4 Pieces Op. 56: No. 1. Prelude
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XScriabine
The third one ("Nuances") is like an alternate version of Prelude op 48 N°2!
Space vs Pitch
This is such a gorgeous collection of pieces. I love how the ambiguous cadence on the last piece foreshadows things to come.
Igwilo
The finale in the first prelude is just amazing 0:39
mark gatti
“Nuances” breaks my heart—like a bittersweet farewell to a lover, gone forever.
UpAndOut
Scriabin's later pieces seem so straightforward on paper, but they're anything but that when you hear them.
Нежный гигант Владислав
What do you mean by simplicity?
Tom Furgas
Beautiful sketches. I'm surprised that Scriabin didn't work these up to major works. The ideas behind them seem worthy of expansion and development.
It is so sad that he died so young. Imagine if he'd lived to be 80 (dying in 1952) and actively composing all the while. Who knows where his fertile imagination would have taken him.
Amaranth
A twelve tone method would have developed completely independently of Schoenberg. Chords which make up the entire chromatic gauntlet are found in his latest sketches.
Scriabinist
@Amaranth He's already developed that individual atonal style, but it would be interesting if he actually finishes Mysterium
WIM
@Amaranth no, scriabin wouldn't have devolved into the stupidity of other modernists. Unlike them he doesn't make up pseudo-scientific methods like serialism to justify making different kinds of music.