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Offline Bob

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Where was Scriabin living...?
on: January 04, 2019, 05:49:02 PM
...when he wrote his music?

It's probably in here...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Scriabin


I was just thinking if he was nuts and thought the world was ending, if he was seeing some kind of industrial revolution change, it might really seem like the old world was ending.  Or he was just nuts.   ::)  I think the early 1900s was when Statlin (?) or one of those guys enslaved their people and modernized Russia (or the Soviet Union, whenever that came into being). 

He's Russian, so I would think Russia then, with acting French being fashionable (and maybe why he started off imitating Chopin).

Russian/USSR history wasn't covered much in my American education.  The 18th century modernization was something I saw in a movie.  "They were still a farming peasant country that in the 1900s?"
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Re: Where was Scriabin living...?
Reply #1 on: January 04, 2019, 09:49:37 PM
Describing his 'Mysterium" .. “the whole world,” Scriabin said, would be invited to the performance. “Animals, insects, birds, all must be there.” Artists of all kinds would contribute to the seven-day ritual; the audience’s senses would be dazzled by lights, incenses, textures, music and poetry. Together with fellow Theosophist Emile Sigogne, Scriabin “worked on an absolutely new language for the Mysterium. It had Sanskritic roots, but included cries, interjections, exclamations, and the sounds of breath inhaled and exhaled.”

A multimedia production to be played at the end of the world for all.... 

On another note, Messiaen wrote a very haunting and beautiful piece called 'quartet for the end of time'..written while he was in a concentration camp..
4'33"

Offline mjames

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Re: Where was Scriabin living...?
Reply #2 on: January 05, 2019, 12:47:31 AM
Died 7 years before the Soviet Union came into existence, though I'm sure he got to see a lot of the horrors of the previous government. Don't think any of that affected him considering he lived around privileged circles.

He was just a delusional narcissist.

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Re: Where was Scriabin living...?
Reply #3 on: January 05, 2019, 08:59:49 AM
Died 7 years before the Soviet Union came into existence, though I'm sure he got to see a lot of the horrors of the previous government. Don't think any of that affected him considering he lived around privileged circles.

He was just a delusional narcissist.

And we should be greatful for that...without it his music probably had become less wonderful :)

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Re: Where was Scriabin living...?
Reply #4 on: January 11, 2019, 10:00:56 AM
I love his music. I generally prefer it over Rachmaninoff's.

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Re: Where was Scriabin living...?
Reply #5 on: January 13, 2019, 12:13:40 PM
I guess no one's going to read the wikipedia article for me....

Looks like about four years in Switzerland and Paris, otherwise Russia the rest of the time.
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