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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Two Impromptus op. 14: No. 2 in F-sharp minor
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Maira Leikarte
It's when Scriabin's practicing Chopin and gets carried away improvising and a new piece emerges.
Ray Orzechowski
A pinnacle of piano music. I was captivated the first time I heard this composition. The interplay of harmonic lines is spellbinding.
dAvrilthebear
Raymond Orzechowski , exactly!
Daniel Berry
At 3:03 there's a very similar passage to the start of the first movement of his piano concerto, a few bars before the orchestra comes in the second time. This was written a year before the piano concerto, interesting.
huakinthoi
That's right!
In the two pieces, Scriabin seems to hesitate between a dominant seventh chord {c#,e#,g#,b}, which would lead him to F# minor, and a dominant ninth chord without fundamental, in second inversion {d,f#,g#,b}, which might lead the tonality towards the relative A major.
Also, the melody is almost the same.
Daniel Berry
huakinthoi Indeed, I like to think of it as meandering around the 5th of the dominant 7th chord. Right from the start Scriabin was exploring with extensions of the dominant 7th, and his later works often featured a stasis of this harmony (ie. not resolving) with many extensions, which to him conveyed the representation of light. I think of the second chord as a B minor in first inversion with an added 6 (Bm6/D) but yours is an equally valid interpretation.
Никита Король
U didn’t notice that the theme of this impromptu is fully the same as in concerto
csdrew22
My god, the polyrhythmic second voice in the final recap is absolutely sublime
Lucas T
Another gem by Scriabin, absolutely exquisite!
Baghirov Ali
There are some similarities with his piano concerto; some melodies in its first movement were probably inspired by this impromptu. Bravo, Scriabin!