thumb|Alexander Nikolayevich Scriabin. Alexander Nikolayevich Scriabin (, Aleksandr Nikolayevich Skryabin; sometimes transliterated as Skriabin, Skryabin, or Scriabine) (–27 April 1915) was a Russian composer and pianist who developed a highly lyrical and idiosyncratic tonal language. Driven by a poetic, philosophical and aesthetic vision that bordered on the mystical, he can be considered the primary figure of Russian Symbolism in music. His music has been performed by musicians such as Sergei Rachmaninoff, Vladimir Horowitz, Arthur Rubinstein, Sviatoslav Richter, Vladimir Sofronitsky, Andrei Gavrilov, Marc-André Hamelin, Evgeny Kissin, Claudio Arrau and Vladimir Ashkenazy. He also influenced composers like Olivier Messiaen, Sergei Prokofiev and Igor Stravinsky, although Scriabin was reported to have disliked Prokofiev's and Stravinsky's music.

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