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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Polonaise Op. 21
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El Fogon Del Buen Gusto
@Samovar Maker I see. I really do not know any of Lyapunov besides his sonata. But I know many of Alexander Scriabin. Here are a few from Scriabin that you might like:
1. Etude op 8 no 12
2. Etude op 42 no 5 (performance by Horowitz please)
3. Sonata no 2 (fantasy sonata) op 19 performance by Valentina Lisitsa in person.
4 Waltz op 38
This are all very tonal works. Late Scriabin reaches atonality. And if you like this type of music you won't really like modern unless you are thought how to listen to it. Here is a piece that suggests atonality.
5 Vers la Flamme. Look up the video where Horowitz talks about it and plays it in person. Not the sheet music one until you see the first one.
I can recommend a lot more if you want. And am a pianist and have played many times Chopin Liszt and Rachmaninoff. But have you listened to others like Schubert, Beethoven, Prokofiev or Ravel?
Scriabinist
It's a different feeling compared to something like Chopin's Tragique Polonaise. It's a different kind of bitterness, something that is exclusive to Scriabin.
Alexander Scriabin
yes
Keegan Andre
Scriabin's bitterness feels in more ways how Bach would express his bitterness. Instead that of Chopin's music which spites against the world, Scriabin and Bach embrace it as fundamental to their creative expression. It is a metaphysical dance of bitterness that holds equal precedent to all human emotions, rather than being inundated in it like Chopin.
rachm06
Someone explains the fact that Scriabin is not much known because of the similarity of many of his early works with Chopin. But who cares?! The art itself has not to be always something avant-garde (that he experienced later anyway) but even simple and pure beauty, as we see in this inexplicably forgotten polonaise.
Art
@Zane Xiao idk I thought his music was pretty weird at first but once I heard and then learned to play album leaf it kind of clicked and I bought a big book of his mazurkas and poemes and stuff and now thats pretty much the only pieces I've been working on lately.
I think part of the appeal can only be realized as a musician/performer who can recognize the value of some of his more dissonant pieces. Almost everything is super fun to play.
帅哥
@Human Effigy you obviously haven't studied scriabin, or seriously studied chopin's polonnaz, they are completely different. chopin's polonnaz always have improvisation in it.but the counterpoint technique in this scriabin's work is very delicate
Nmn Mnm
@Human EffigyScrabian is the king of dark and mistrious music Also he was in ocalt and mysticism. Unfortunately He dead very soono and Some of the best his orchestral works after 80 years were performed in 90s (mystrum)
Anyway he coullit's not strange he has works in level of his audience.but sonats. 5 8 9. 10 and. mystrium are true Scrabian's masterpieces.
Samovar Maker
@Human Effigy Well it's a Polonaise so of course it reminds of Chopin
Hugo D
@Human Effigy yes it is obvious, that the piece is inspired by chopin. But it is not an imitation by any means
MusicalSeries
I'm giving the incipit of this piece to Musenet A.I.
It's definitely a Chopinesque composition. The A.I. is sounding nice (the A.I. is trained on the style of Chopin)!