Sonatas: Scriabin vs. Prokofiev

[jericho]

Who wrote the more technically demanding ones? Who is more musically complex? Who is more original and innovative between the two? Whose sonatas do you generally consider as superior?

Whew...that was a lot of questions.

[hodi]

SCRIABIN WINS IN ALL CATEGORIES ! ! !

[dnephi]

Prokofiev wins in all categories!

[imbetter]

Scriabin wins in all category's

[Kassaa]

My mother wins in all categories.

Scriabin wins in all category's

Nice plural.

[soliloquy]

Who wrote the more technically demanding ones? Who is more musically complex? Who is more original and innovative between the two? Whose sonatas do you generally consider as superior?

Whew...that was a lot of questions.

Tech- Prokofiev
Complexity- Late Scriabin
Originality- Scriabin
Favs- possibly tied between Prok 4 and Scrib 6

[verywellmister]

I don't know about about technique, but Scriabin is definitely the more musically challenging.

[arensky]

Who wrote the more technically demanding ones? Who is more musically complex? Who is more original and innovative between the two? Whose sonatas do you generally consider as superior?

Whew...that was a lot of questions.

They're both technically demanding, musically complex, original and innovative. But they are apples and oranges. They're completely different so it's hard to say. Prokofiev's sonatas are traditional in their use of form, while Scriabin transformed the Sonata and of course their harmonic languages are very different. Can't say that one is nessacarily better than the other, although I prefer Scriabin. That's just my taste, though.

[mikey6]

They both win in all categories.

[pianowelsh]

Id be inclined to side with mikey here. In terms of difficulty - there are NO easy sonatas of either composer. The prokofiev ones are typically that little bit longer and so perhaps require more stamina?!? The late sonatas of scriabin are obscenenly complexed and totally origional. I would say that scriabins first sonatas are perhaps slightly more orginal than Prokofievs no1 and Scriabin shows evidence early on of the technical and musical complexities which were to feature later in his music. My favourite sonatas to listen to: Scriabin 1-5, Prokofiev 1,3,5,6,7  In terms of interest (score studying) scriabin 4,5,8,9,10 and Prokofiev 6,7,9.

[rob47]

prokofiev 8th (richter, gilels, gavrilov)