Scriabin in context

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The purpose of this research project is to present a background to the composer Alexander Scriabin and his compositions. His life and works have been well documented although less has been written on the forces which affected his life and compositions. It is the writer's opinion that a purely technical dissection of his scores or a chronological recording of the events of his life will not shed much light on the music itself. The Diaries reveal a great deal of the man and his sometimes complicated philosophies as do the numerous letters which have survived him. What a tragedy that his playing was not recorded acoustically as by 1915 the technological facility to do so was of a high order. Our reliance on the many ambiguous accounts of his playing by those that heard him could then be gratefully 'cast into the hedge'. In this document Scriabin emerges as a child of the nineteenth century and a pathfinder to modernism in the twentieth century. His music begins in the chromatic meliodic t

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