Alexander Scriabin, Russian pianist and composer (born 1872)

Alexander Scriabin

Russian composer and pianist (1872–1915)

Alexander Nikolayevich Scriabin 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,…