Alexander Scriabin piano tutorials.
Russian composer and pianist who started out writing in the language of Chopin and ended up with a harmony of his own, far beyond the tonal music he grew up with.
About Scriabin.
Alexander Scriabin was born in Moscow in 1872. His mother, a concert pianist, died when he was about a year old. As a boy at the cadet school he took private piano lessons with Nikolai Zverev, who also taught Rachmaninoff, and in 1888 he entered the Moscow Conservatory, where he studied piano with Vasily Safonov and counterpoint with Sergei Taneyev. He graduated in 1892 with a gold medal in piano, the same year as Rachmaninoff.
His early piano music is close to Chopin: waltzes, mazurkas, preludes and etudes. From there his style moved step by step into a dissonant harmony of his own, shaped by his interest in theosophy and in linking sound and colour. The last five of his ten sonatas have no key signature, and Prometheus: The Poem of Fire has a part for a colour keyboard. He died in Moscow in 1915, aged 43.
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