Alexander Scriabin
1872 – 1915
Scriabin evolved from Chopinesque romantic to mystical visionary. His late works explore ecstasy and the divine through revolutionary harmonies. Music as transcendence, striving for the infinite.
Essential Listening
Piano Sonata No. 5
Ten minutes of mystical intensity. Scriabin's harmonic world hovers between ecstasy and disintegration.
Étude in D-sharp minor, Op. 8 No. 12
Passionate and virtuosic. Early Scriabin still in Chopin's orbit, but with distinctive fire.
Poem of Ecstasy
Orchestral ecstasy building to overwhelming climax. Scriabin's mystic philosophy made audible.
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