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Alexander Scriabin

1871 - 1915

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Alexander Nikolayevich Scriabin (6 January 1872 [O.S. 25 December 1871] – 27 April [O.S. 14 April] 1915) was a Russian composer and pianist. Before 1903, Scriabin was greatly influenced by the music of Frédéric Chopin and composed in a relatively tonal, late-Romantic idiom. Later, and independently of his influential contemporary Arnold Schoenberg, Scriabin developed a much more dissonant musical language that had transcended usual tonality but was not atonal, which accorded with his personal brand of metaphysics. Scriabin found significant appeal in the concept of Gesamtkunstwerk as well as synesthesia, and associated colours with the various harmonic tones of his scale, while his colour-coded circle of fifths was also inspired by theosophy. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Alexander Scriabin is the 75th most popular composer (down from 72nd in 2019), the 79th most popular biography from Russia (up from 85th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Russian Composer.

Alexander Scriabin is most famous for his piano compositions.

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Among composers, Alexander Scriabin ranks 75 out of 1,451. Before him are Astor Piazzolla, Alessandro Scarlatti, Alexander Borodin, François Couperin, George Gershwin, and Johann Christian Bach. After him are Franz Lehár, Jules Massenet, Hans Zimmer, César Franck, Karlheinz Stockhausen, and Josquin des Prez.

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Among people born in 1871, Alexander Scriabin ranks 4. Before him are Rosa Luxemburg, Marcel Proust, and Ernest Rutherford. After him are Friedrich Ebert, Grazia Deledda, Victor Grignard, Karl Liebknecht, Guangxu Emperor, Pietro Badoglio, Paul Valéry, and Albert Lebrun. Among people deceased in 1915, Alexander Scriabin ranks 1. After him are Alois Alzheimer, Paul Ehrlich, Frederick Winslow Taylor, Henry Moseley, Porfirio Díaz, Ellen G. White, Jean-Henri Fabre, Sergei Witte, Clara Immerwahr, Charles Tupper, and Wilhelm Windelband.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Alexander Scriabin ranks 79 out of 3,761. Before him are Peter II of Russia (1715), Peter Carl Fabergé (1846), Anna of Russia (1693), Alexander Borodin (1833), Lou Andreas-Salomé (1861), and Paul Karrer (1889). After him are Dmitry Medvedev (1965), Konstantin Stanislavski (1863), Stanislav Petrov (1939), Boris Godunov (1552), Feodor I of Russia (1557), and Nadezhda Krupskaya (1869).

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Among COMPOSERS In Russia

Among composers born in Russia, Alexander Scriabin ranks 8. Before him are Igor Stravinsky (1882), Dmitri Shostakovich (1906), Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873), Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844), Modest Mussorgsky (1839), and Alexander Borodin (1833). After him are Mikhail Glinka (1804), Mily Balakirev (1837), Sofia Gubaidulina (1931), Dmitry Kabalevsky (1904), Otto Nicolai (1810), and Alfred Schnittke (1934).

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