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Alexander Scriabin – great musician

Alexander Scriabin - great musician

Alexander Scriabin – great musician


Alexander Scriabin was a Russian composer and pianist, teacher, representative of symbolism in music. He did not have an absolute hearing and did not have the highest level of musical memory. But he was a genius! Moreover, he, like Columbus, opened a new continent – the Synthesis of the Arts.
Alexander Nikolaevich Scriabin was born on January 6, 1872 in Moscow.
If the universe is a huge ocean of energies that pierce us, then under some conditions it can be perceived. To do this, we must turn off the “thunder of reason” and give ourselves to the power of the unconscious. This connects us to the space. Scriabin was able to turn off the “thunder of reason” and received divine chords in return.

Shostakovich, Schnittke, Berlioz, Mozart, Wagner knew how to experience this state of divine revelation. They said that they acted as if in a dream. Sometimes they dreamed of music. It was a game of universal harmonies. Overflowing with all the colors of the rainbow, the multidimensional life of information waves – that was the ultimate goal of Scriabin’s search. He achieved great success in this field.
A person in a state of ecstasy feels all the senses. This is called synaesthesia. At the time of the divine revelation, the musician is a synesthetic. It is not surprising that Scriabin came up with the idea to give the listener the universal chords he caught as a visual and auditory phenomenon in a single moment. So he opened color music.
Prominent Alexander Scriabin

Prominent Alexander Scriabin


To feel ecstasy Scriabin drank alcohol. There was a bottle of cognac on his piano. Fortunately, fate was more merciful to him than to his other great contemporaries – Vrubel, Nietzsche and Maupassant, he escaped the horrors of a dead house and forced treatment.
However, he was no more obsessive than some of his contemporaries, who sought truth in the theory of changing races on Earth.
Alexander Scriabin died on April 27, 1915 in Moscow. He died as ridiculously as tragically. A pimple appeared on his lip. For some reason the doctors were powerless. Scriabin suffered, panicked, cheered up and … died in agony. The great musician was only 43 years old.
Scriabin’s unique place in Russian and world music history is determined primarily by the fact that he viewed his own work not as a goal and result, but as a means of achieving a much larger Universal task.

Alexander Scriabin – great musician

A. N. Scriabin by Pasternak

A. N. Scriabin by Pasternak

A. N. Scriabin with his father

A. N. Scriabin with his father

A. Skryabin with his wife and son Julian

A. Skryabin with his wife and son Julian

A.N. Scriabin and Joseph Hoffmann in their youth

A.N. Scriabin and Joseph Hoffmann in their youth

A.N. Scriabin-cadet

A.N. Scriabin-cadet

Alexander Nikolaevich Scriabin, 1899

Alexander Nikolaevich Scriabin, 1899

Daughters of the composer Elena Alexandrovna and Maria Alexandrovna

Daughters of the composer Elena Alexandrovna and Maria Alexandrovna

Famous Alexander Scriabin, 1901

Famous Alexander Scriabin, 1901

Lyubov Petrovna Scriabina, the mother of the composer

Lyubov Petrovna Scriabina, the mother of the composer

Lyubov Scriabina, aunt and teacher of the composer

Lyubov Scriabina, aunt and teacher of the composer

Nikolai Alexandrovich Scriabin – father of the composer

Nikolai Alexandrovich Scriabin – father of the composer

Outstanding Alexander Scriabin, 1894

Outstanding Alexander Scriabin, 1894

Portrait of Scriabin by A. Golovin

Portrait of Scriabin by A. Golovin

Sergei Ivanovich Taneyev, a teacher of Scriabin and a friend of his family

Sergei Ivanovich Taneyev, a teacher of Scriabin and a friend of his family

Sergei Nikolaevich Trubetskoi, Russian philosopher, who had a significant influence on the formation of Scriabin's worldview

Sergei Nikolaevich Trubetskoi, Russian philosopher, who had a significant influence on the formation of Scriabin’s worldview

Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninov, a comrade of Scriabin

Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninov, a comrade of Scriabin

Talented Alexander Scriabin, 1913

Talented Alexander Scriabin, 1913

The future composer at the age of seven

The future composer at the age of seven

The State Museum named after A.N. Skryabin. The composer's room

The State Museum named after A.N. Skryabin. The composer’s room

Vera Ivanovna Scriabina, the first wife of the composer

Vera Ivanovna Scriabina, the first wife of the composer

Vladimir Vladimirovich Sofronitsky, one of the best performers of piano works of Scriabin

Vladimir Vladimirovich Sofronitsky, one of the best performers of piano works of Scriabin

Vsevolod Ivanovich Buyukli, one of the best performers of Scriabin's piano works

Vsevolod Ivanovich Buyukli, one of the best performers of Scriabin’s piano works

Yevgeny Gunst, a friend of Scriabin, who supported his family after the composer's death

Yevgeny Gunst, a friend of Scriabin, who supported his family after the composer’s death

Yulian Skryabin, son of the composer

Yulian Skryabin, son of the composer