Alexander Nikolayevich Scriabin was born January 6, 1872 into an aristocratic family in Moscow. He became a noted pianist despite his small hands, which could barely stretch to a ninth. In 1894, Scriabin made his debut as a pianist in St. Petersburg, performing his own works to positive reviews. Scriabin spent the last years of his all-too-short life obsessed with the idea of a piece he called Mysterium, whose performance - in a specially built temple in the Himalayas, with every member of the audience a participant in a total-work-of-art to end all total-works-of-art that would involve dance, words, lights, smells, and music - would bring about the end of the world as we know it, and usher in a new era for humanity. He never finished it, but pieces of it exist and the below is one of them.
Posted on: Tue, 06 Jan 2015 15:30:01 +0000
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