Alexander Nikolayevich Scriabin
Born: 6th January 1872, Moscow
Died: 14th April 1915, Moscow
Nationality: Russian
Alexander Nikolayevich Scriabin was a Russian composer and pianist. Before 1903, Scriabin was greatly influenced by the music of Frédéric Chopin and composed in a relatively tonal, late-Romantic idiom. Later, and independently of his influential contemporary Arnold Schoenberg, Scriabin developed a much more dissonant musical language that had transcended usual tonality but was not atonal, which accorded with his personal brand of metaphysics. Scriabin found significant appeal in the concept of Gesamtkunstwerk as well as synesthesia, and associated colours with the various harmonic tones of his scale, while his colour-coded circle of fifths was also inspired by theosophy. He is often considered the main Russian symbolist composer and a major representative of the Russian Silver Age.
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Bruce Liu on Lunaris
20th Aug 2026
The Canadian pianist discusses his new album Lunaris, a recent Presto Recording of the Week, and the unique path he has been carving since winning the Chopin competition in 2021.
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Yevgeny Sudbin plays Scriabin
9th May 2025
Yevgeny Sudbin returns to the music of Scriabin in a new album of nicely selected solo piano works which demonstrate the variety of the composer's writing, and the pianist's open and incisive approach to understanding and expressing each piece on its own terms.
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Popular Works: Scriabin
- 12 Etudes for piano, Op. 8 (28)
- 2 Poems for Piano, Op. 63 (24)
- Albumblatt, Op. 58 (31)
- Deux Danses Op. 73 (31)
- Deux poèmes, Op. 32 (53)
- Étude Op. 2 No. 1 in C sharp minor (97)
- Étude Op. 8 No. 11 in B flat minor (24)
- Étude Op. 8 No. 12 in D sharp minor (52)
- Étude Op. 42 No. 5 in C sharp minor (51)
- Études (8), Op. 42 (26)
- Fantasy in B minor, Op. 28 (69)
- Piano Concerto in F sharp minor, Op. 20 (49)
- Piano Sonata No. 2 in G sharp minor, Op. 19 'Sonata Fantasy' (91)
- Piano Sonata No. 3 in F sharp minor, Op. 23 (90)
- Piano Sonata No. 4 in F sharp major, Op. 30 (92)
- Piano Sonata No. 5 in F sharp major, Op. 53 (120)
- Piano Sonata No. 6, Op. 62 (45)
- Piano Sonata No. 7, Op. 64 'White Mass' (35)
- Piano Sonata No. 8, Op. 66 (39)
- Piano Sonata No. 9, Op. 68 'Black Mass' (119)
- Piano Sonata No. 1 in F minor, Op. 6 (36)
- Piano Sonata No. 10, Op. 70 (67)
- Poème de l'extase, Op.54 (80)
- Poème in F sharp major, Op. 32 No. 1 (40)
- Poème-Nocturne, Op. 61 (32)
- Poèmes, Op. 69 Nos. 1 & 2 (31)
- Prelude & Nocturne, Op. 9 (62)
- Prelude, Op. 8 No. 12 in D sharp minor (47)
- Preludes (24), Op. 11 (56)
- Preludes (5), Op. 16 (26)
- Preludes (5), Op. 74 (53)
- Prometheus (The Poem of Fire), Op. 60 (43)
- Symphony No. 1 in E major, Op. 26 (26)
- Symphony No. 2 in C minor, Op. 29 (27)
- Symphony No. 3 in C minor, Op. 43 'The Divine Poem' (37)
- Three Etudes Op. 65 (1911/1912) (28)
- Two Mazurkas, Op. 40 (25)
- Two Pieces, Op. 57 (43)
- Vers la flamme, Op. 72 (103)
- Waltz in A flat major, Op. 38 (49)
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