Scriabin is the only composer who has sustained my interest in piano in over forty years of amateur musicianship. When I turn on the radio ... I have heard everything! I am bored by everything! But Scriabin!!! Although I am new here in your forum, and see a lot of interesting posts, golly, this thread is so old! I wonder if anyone is left who would like to renew the Flame, and share a correspondence with me about this great composer, who had one foot in the romantic era, and one in our own age absolutely.// When we say Scriabn is God we mean, I think, that he has in his scores indicated a _juissance_ which can only be experienced by those who strive to his musical landscapes in performance, that is, in a moment of Creation. This differs from other composers, for example Mozart whose aim was simply, To Please (audience, women, teachers). Scriabin thought if you cannot span my chords then be damned. However I think the marked over-fast tempi are inflated by later publishers, or perhaps such exaggerated tempi as one sometimes hears in the commercial recordings are either computer enhanced, drug-induced, or simply the obsessive consequence of someone more mad than I.
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