Alexander Scriabin
Composer
1872 – 1915
Who was Alexander Scriabin?
Alexander Nikolayevich Scriabin was a Russian composer and pianist. Scriabin's early work is characterised by a lyrical and idiosyncratic tonal language influenced by Frédéric Chopin. Later in his career, independently of Arnold Schoenberg, Scriabin developed a substantially atonal and much more dissonant musical system, which he accorded with his personal brand of mysticism. Scriabin was influenced by synesthesia, and associated colors with the various harmonic tones of his atonal scale, while his color-coded circle of fifths was also influenced by theosophy. He is considered by some to be the main Russian Symbolist composer.
Scriabin was one of the most innovative and most controversial of early modern composers. The Great Soviet Encyclopedia said of Scriabin that, "No composer has had more scorn heaped or greater love bestowed..." Leo Tolstoy once described Scriabin's music as "a sincere expression of genius". Scriabin had a major impact on the music world over time, and influenced composers such as Igor Stravinsky, Sergei Prokofiev, and Nikolai Roslavets. Scriabin's importance in the Soviet musical scene, and internationally, drastically declined.
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- Born
- Jan 6, 1872
Moscow - Also known as
- Skrjabin
- A. Scriabin
- Alexander Nikolayevich Scriabin
- Skryabin
- Scriabin
- Alexander Skrjabin
- Александр Николаевич Скрябинь
- Александр Николаевич Скрябин
- Scriabine
- Alexandre Scriabine
- Children
- Nationality
- Russia
- Profession
- Education
- Moscow Conservatory
(1888 - )
- Moscow Conservatory
- Employment
- Moscow Conservatory
(1898 - 1903)
- Moscow Conservatory
- Lived in
- Moscow
- Died
- Apr 27, 1915
Moscow
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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