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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Piano Sonata No. 8 Op. 66
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Dávid Rehák
Alekszandr Szkrjabin:8.Zongoraszonáta Op.66
1.Lento - Allegro agitato 00:00
2.Molto piú vivo - Allegro 02:32
3.Tragico.Molto piú vivo 06:15
4.Presto - Allegro 06:42
5.Meno vivo 07:21
6.Molto piú vivo. Agitato 08:21
7.Presto 08:44
8.Allegro (Tempo primo) 09:15
9.Piú vivo - Allegro 10:07
10.Tragico - Piú vivo - Presto 10:57
11.Prestissimo 12:51
Vladimir Ashkenazy-zongora
Daniel Rui
This is my favorite Scriabin sonata. It's dark, but so serious and grave. The harmonies and rhythms are so pungent --- I really like the comment that calls the piece a "living organism; the soul itself"
WIM
Because the comment conforms to your biases
オリバーオリバー
@WIM ?
Captain Gorgeous
Listening to this piece is the closest I've ever come, mistaking music for an living organism. It's like a display of life, the soul itself.
ROBOT DETECTOR
good ears.
Erik Freitas
Turbulent, mysterious, oceanic ... like the sea of an alien planet in a distant galaxy. Marvelous piece!
Erik Freitas
Just have to add that 4:08–8:21 is extraordinarily beautiful and intricate. Hard to imagine how he came up with all of that. I can’t get enough of this development section!
Odin Limaye
One of the greatest pieces of music ever written!
Ivan the Benighted
I agree.
TomCL 2000
Such intoxicating music. It never gets any easier to wrap my head around how someone wrote this. The music is so alive it’s genuinely dumbfounding.