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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.
Scriabin: The Poem of Ectasy, Op. 54; etc
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