ha! finally finished Scriabin, a Biography.. His last words before he died were, "Who is there?"

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Scriabin - Deux danses op.73 - Richter

Alexander Scriabin

Deux danses op.73

n°1 Guirlandes
n°2 Flammes sombres

Sviatoslav Richter
Live recording, Seesen, 6.XI.1992

Teenagers often say they could “just die” when acne takes over their faces, but in Scriabin’s case this is precisely what happened. The Russian composer-pianist made his last public appearance in St Petersburg on April 2, 1915. Just a few days later he noticed a pimple on his upper lip. On April 7 the furuncle was infected and Scriabin was bedridden and febrile. By the 11th, well-wishers crowded the staircase of his flat, for two types of blood poisoning had set in. Scriabin died a few days later, with his manuscript containing sketches for the Misteriya open on the piano. [+]

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Alexander Scriabin plays Scriabin Mazurka op 40 no 2

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I began reading Scriabin, a Biography by Faubion Bowers

I do love all of Alexander Scriabin's music since late seventies, most of all his "Verse la flamme"

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Alexander Scriabin

La Poème de l'Extase

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Alexander Scriabin: Mazurkas, Poèmes & Impromtus

This multi-disc set of piano works by Scriabin is the fourth and final instalment in Dmitri Alexeev’s monumental endeavour to record Scriabin’s entire oeuvre for the piano on Brilliant Classics

Composer: Alexander Scriabin
Artists: Dmitri Alexeev piano

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