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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Nocturne In A-Flat
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Scriabinist
Huge chords, a talent at creating charming melodies, even in such a simple piece, later-Scriabin is already starting to grow
9UWEEO NCBMD
Very pretty piece. A pity the recording has such an unbalanced stereophonic spread, it could sound much better.
Milton
So many Chopinesque devices and actual quotes from his pieces, boy was a huge fanboy.
Lunar Orbit
I mean chopin loved Hummel
MJE112358132134
What are the quotes? I am very familiar with most of Chopin's music, and. although I can see resemblances to Chopin's style in general, no actual quotes leap out at me.
Milton
@Jonah Holmes It wasn't criticism, mate.
Jonah Holmes
He was twelve mate.
Mister Van Gister
Nice piece! It really sounds like Liszt: Au lac de Wallenstadt btw
Brian Bixler
Beautiful, the rubato seems a little weird here, but my first listen, and it is a "night-dream", where Time is different...
Kalen1457
This is incredibly advanced writing for a twelve year old. It seems like a lot of composers were precocious(Check out Beethoven's 3 early Sonatas op.2, Chopin's early polonaises Liszt's nascent studies that would eventually become the transcendentals, Rachmaninoff nocturnes etc...) I wish more kids were artistically inclined these days, it seems like too much attention is focused on computer programming.