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Drawing of Scriabin at his last recital - attributed to Kustodiev

Original Prometheus cover design by Jean Delville, shown here in its original colours (it has been re-published on occasions with alteration to these colours)

Alexander Goldenweiser at the piano. A friend and early champion of Scriabin's music.

Irina Ivanovna Sofronitskaya (d. 2020), daughter-in-law of Sofronitsky, long-time worker at Scriabin Museum. The Berlin wool tapestry which can be seen behind her was made by Scriabin’s Aunt Lyubov.

Scriabin in 1879‏

Scriabin having just finished Prometheus

Scriabin in 1914‏

Scriabin recording for Welte Company

Skryabin by Leonid Pasternak (Father of Boris)

Lyubov Skryabina (Shchetinina), Scriabin’s mother.

Lyubov Skryabina (Skryabin's Aunt‏)

Anton Rubinstein (1829- 1894), oustanding pianist and composer.

Anton Arensky (1891- 1906), composer, unsympathetic as a professor to Scriabin’s music.

Nikolai Zverev (1832–1893), Scriabin’s teacher in boyhood

Vasili Safonov (1852-1918), pianist, conductor, Scriabin’s piano professor at the Moscow Conservatoire

Natalya Sekerina (1877-1958), beloved of Scriabin in youth.

Vera Ivanovna Isakovich (1875-1920), Scriabin’s wife, later estranged

Yulian Skryabin (1908-1919) Scriabin’s son with Tatyana, died in a swimming accident

Tatyana Schloezer (1883–1922) Scriabin’s life-partner after his estrangement from Vera.

Mitrofan Belyaev (1836-1904), publisher, patron, promoter of Russian music

Joseph Lhévinne (1874-1944) Virtuoso pianist, Scriabin’s rival in Conservatoire class.

Sergei Rachmaninov (1873–1943) Despite their rivalry and artistic differences Rachmaninov gave concerts after Scriabin’s death for the benefit of Scriabin’s family.

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908) A critic of the orthography of Scriabin’s early works.

Henry Wood (1869–1944) A tireless advocate for new Music, Wood conducted Prometheus in London.

Sergei Koussevitzky (1874-1951) In Moscow Koussevitsky promoted Scriabin as a composer and performed his works. Later recordings do exist, though the performances were less frequent.

Anatoly Lyadov (1855-1914) A close friend who helped with the preparation of Scriabin’s works for publication. He was himself a fastidious orchestrator of a small but exquisite repertoire of short works.

Helena Blavatskaya (her name is often anglicised as Blavatsky) 1831-1931 Contriver of an attempted synthesis of Science and Religion, Theosophy, which gained huge prestige towards the end of the nineteenth century and which Scriabin was interested in from 1905.

Vyacheslav Ivanov (1866-1949) Classical philologist and erudite whose ideas influenced Scriabin to a great degree.

Konstantin Balmont (1867 –1942) Poet and prolific translator who influenced Scriabin’s imaginative and aesthetic world.

Recent Posts

The first biography of Scriabin: by Yulii Engel’ (1915) – an English translation with annotations by Simon Nicholls
The Evolution of Harmonic Style in Scriabin’s Oeuvre – forthcoming publication of a definitive study by composer Joseph Beer.
Yuri Kholopov: Scriabin and the Harmony of the Twentieth Century
Scriabin the Conservative Innovator
Interview on YouTube with Mira T. Sundara Rajan, ‘Scriabin’s Ecstatic Soundworld’.
Virginie Déjos: Excerpt from: Analyse et interprétation des six dernièressonates pour piano d’Alexandre Scriabine

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