Information needed on the musical styles of Rach. and Skriabin

[lagin]

Hi, for my next history test (don't worry m1469, this is my last history exam, lol), I need to be able to share about the musical styles and contributions of various Romantic  to 20th century composers.  I was wondering if any of you have some facts about Rachmanioff, and Skryabin's musical styles/contributions.  Things like major works by them, and harmonic, melodic, and rhythmic idioms characteristic to their pieces, are good.  Or outside influences on their style, eg. other composer's, folktunes, ect., and the main genres they used, like symphony, piano, ect.  Please, try to keep it to fact, rather than abstract opinion, because this is for a college exam!  But of course, when it comes to melodic idioms, and whatnot, opinion does enter somewhat.

So far I have them both as Russian composers, with Rachmaninoff's main works being his Second Piano Concerto, and his Variations on a Theme of Paganini.  On Scriabin I have him as a visionary artist whose music is characterized by subtle lyricism, and who was one of the leaders in the 20th century search for new harmonies.  Does anyone know what harmonies he came up with?  And are these two composers very similar or different in there styles?

I'm sure I'll have more composers later, but these are the first two that my text book doesn't cover.  I haven't googled these yet, so don't feel immensely pressured to answer, but if you have any information of the top of your head, and the time to type it, please feel free to do so.  It would be most appreciated.  Thanks in advance.

[chopiabin]

Well for one, I don't think that Rachmaninov's whole body of work can be boiled down to two pieces.

Scriabin started basing his harmonies off of fourths rather than thirds, and he also came up with something called the "mystic chord" which he used extensively in his later works. I can't really remember the notes in the chord, but you could probably find something about it online. He also was a synaesthetic who associated different colors with every note on the keyboard. For his orchestral work "Prometheus:The Poem of Fire" he actually orchestrated colors to be played from a "color organ" for the performances, although the instrument was apparenlt impractical and was never used.

[thracozaag]

https://www.pianosociety.com/index.php?id=25

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