Superficial Comparison of the works of early Scriabin and Chopin

[philb]

Does anyone else feel this is strange. Even in his early years I believe Scriabin's aesthetic was entirely his own. Of course there is a definite influence of the developing "Russian style", but I fail to see any connection between his juvenile works and any works of Chopin.

This sort of comparison is akin to the idiotic categorization of Ravel and Debussy as "Impressionists", to which Debussy replied, "I am trying to do 'something different'—an effect of reality...what the imbeciles call 'impressionism', a term which is as poorly used as possible, particularly by the critics, since they do not hesitate to apply it to Turner, the finest creator of mysterious effects in all the world of art."

Does anyone else feel this way?

[revanyoda777]

I've always thought this too. If I had never heard Scriabin's works before and was familiar with Chopin's music I would not confuse the two. I also hear people say early Faure sounds a lot like Chopin, and this to me is more understandable, yet Faure still has his own style apart from other composers.

Chopin is the prime example of great piano music so it makes sense everyone is being compared to him.

[p2u_]

Superficial Comparison of the works of early Scriabin and Chopin

In his early works, Scriabin gives more of an afterthought on Chopin's work, maybe; nothing more.

P.S.: There is an attempt to analyse similarities and differences in the texture in selected piano etudes by both composers. Hope you will find it of interest: AN ANALYSIS OF TEXTURE IN SELECTED PIANO ETUDES OF CHOPIN AND SCRIABIN (direct download link of a pdf document, which is a thesis from 1980 by Mickey Daniel)

Paul

[49410enrique]

In his early works, Scriabin gives more of an afterthought on Chopin's work, maybe; nothing more.

P.S.: There is an attempt to analyse similarities and differences in the texture in selected piano etudes by both composers. Hope you will find it of interest: AN ANALYSIS OF TEXTURE IN SELECTED PIANO ETUDES OF CHOPIN AND SCRIABIN (direct download link of a pdf document, which is a thesis from 1980 by Mickey Daniel)

Paul

she gets into it a bit too on the back end of this relatively recent submission pg 27 of the document pg 35 of the pdf, and round about those parts too

https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc6048/m2/1/high_res_d/dissertation.pdf