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Scriabin, his circle and his influence

Posted: Tue Sep 29, 2009 5:14 pm
by isokani
Good evening!
This is a thread devoted to Scriabin, his immediate circle (Kreins, Drozdovs, Bekman-Shcherbina, Sabaneyev etc), and those whom he directly influenced (too many to mention just here). It is, in essence, a subsection of the mighty Russian and Soviet Composers thread; so here these musicians will have a dedicated area for themselves. Of course, it is widely acknowledged that Scriabin's influence operated not just within his own country: Saar's Preludes (posted in the Baltic area by relative) bear witness to this -- several are deliberate acts of hommage that use very similar material.

I start the thread with a rarely heard and rather lovely mature Scriabin piece, his sketches for the Acte Prealable, and his son's preludes.
Scriabin, Julian - Four Preludes.pdf
Scriabin Sketches for L'Acte prealable.pdf
Scriabin Feuillet d'album 1905.pdf

Re: Scriabin, his circle and his influence

Posted: Tue Sep 29, 2009 5:24 pm
by oren segev
I will add some of my own
Oren
Scriabin-Pavchinsky op54 Poem of Ecstasy.pdf
Scriabin-Sabaneev Prometheus, Poème de feu (duet).pdf

Re: Scriabin, his circle and his influence

Posted: Tue Sep 29, 2009 5:29 pm
by oren segev
Not an often playable piece
Fantasy for 2 pianos
Oren
skriabin-fantasy for 2 pianos.pdf

Re: Scriabin, his circle and his influence

Posted: Tue Sep 29, 2009 5:42 pm
by oren segev
The allegro appasionato op 4 in its "sonata shape"
Oren
Scriabin-Sonata es-moll.pdf

Re: Scriabin, his circle and his influence

Posted: Tue Sep 29, 2009 5:43 pm
by isokani
oren segev wrote:I will add some of my own
Oren
The inscription on the Pavchinsky is by Clemens von Gleich, a notable Scriabin scholar:

C. von Gleich : Die sinfonische Werke von Alexander Skrjabin (Bilthoven, 1963)

Re: Scriabin, his circle and his influence

Posted: Tue Sep 29, 2009 5:46 pm
by oren segev
Scriabin-2 Waltzes (1886)
Oren
Scriabin (1886) Two Waltzes .pdf

Re: Scriabin, his circle and his influence

Posted: Tue Sep 29, 2009 6:17 pm
by oren segev
Some piaces by Sabaneyev (nms)
Oren
Sabaneyev-Poem and Etude op 6.pdf
Sabaneyev-Prelude and impromptu.pdf
Sabaneyev-Trois Morceaux op 7.pdf
Sabaneyev-3 pieces op 12.pdf
Sabaneyev op16 Etude-Nocturne.pdf

Re: Scriabin, his circle and his influence

Posted: Tue Sep 29, 2009 6:19 pm
by oren segev
Some more
Oren
Sabaneyev-Five Equisses op 14.pdf
Sabaneyev- Sonata op 15.pdf
Sabaneyev-Four Preludes op 2.pdf

Re: Scriabin, his circle and his influence

Posted: Tue Sep 29, 2009 6:51 pm
by rob
Thank you isokani for starting this extremely valuable thread.

Here's a quick checklist of the followers of Scriabin as detailed by the Australian composer/musicologist Larry Sitsky. The list is simply his list of chapters in his book 'Music of the Repressed Russian Avant-Garde, 1900-1929'. The spellings are of course Sitsky's - many variants are possible.

The Precursors
Vladimir I. Rebikov: The Inventor of Whole-Tone Music
Aleksei V. Stanchinskiy: The Diatonic Webern

The Big Three
Nikolai A. Roslavets: The Russian Schoenberg
Aleksandr V. Mosolov: The Man of Steel
Arthur V. Lourie: The Decadent Out of Place

The Smaller Five
Leonid A. Polovinkin: The Partial Avant-Gardist
Vladimir V. Shcherbachev: Old Wine in New Vessels
Lev K. Knipper: Wind from the West
Boris N. Liatoshinski: The Passionate Slav
Vladimir M. Deshevov: The Man of the Theater

The Reluctant Avant-Gardists
Samuil E. Feinberg: The Post-Scriabin Pianist
Anatoliy N. Aleksandrov: The Post-Rachmaninovian
Boris A. Aleksandrov: Son of the Composer of the Soviet Anthem

The Jewish School
Aleksandr A. Krein: Voice in the Wilderness
Grigoriy A. Krein: Toward Assimilation
Yulian G. Krein: Precocious Cosmopolitan
Aleksandr M. Veprik: The Ukrainian Bartok and Bloch
Mikhail F. Gnessin: The Jewish Glinka

Composers in Exile
Ivan A. Vyshnegradsky: Microtones
Nikolai Obukhov: Mystic Beyond Scriabin
losif M. Schillinger: Gershwin's Teacher
Aleksandr N. Tcherepnine: Suave Internationalist

Musicologists and Transients
Sergei V. Protopopov: The Post-Scriabin Composer
Leonid L. Sabaneev: Would-be Scientist Becomes Critic
Dmitriy M. Melkikh: Rhapsodist
Gavrill N. Popov: Contrapuntalist
Aleksei S. Zhivotov: Notorious for One Piece
Efim Golvshchev: The First Serialist?
Georgi M. Rimsky-Korsakov: Microtonist

Re: Scriabin, his circle and his influence

Posted: Tue Sep 29, 2009 6:57 pm
by isokani
rob wrote: Aleksandr V. Mosolov: The Man of Steel
Leonid A. Polovinkin: The Partial Avant-Gardist
Vladimir V. Shcherbachev: Old Wine in New Vessels
Lev K. Knipper: Wind from the West
Vladimir M. Deshevov: The Man of the Theater
Boris A. Aleksandrov: Son of the Composer of the Soviet Anthem
Aleksandr M. Veprik: The Ukrainian Bartok and Bloch
Mikhail F. Gnessin: The Jewish Glinka
losif M. Schillinger: Gershwin's Teacher
Aleksandr N. Tcherepnine: Suave Internationalist
Gavrill N. Popov: Contrapuntalist
Aleksei S. Zhivotov: Notorious for One Piece
Efim Golvshchev: The First Serialist?
I think if I was going to be very particular, I would select the above for not being particularly (or at all) influenced by Scriabin. Some were influenced by him in that they wrote music that was a type of counterexample, as it were. I find Sitsky's few-word descriptions a bit sad.