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"Skryabin comes so close to the twelve-note system that it seems probable he would have taken it as the next logical step."
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Alexander Nikolayevich Scriabin was a Russian composer and pianist. Before 1903, he 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
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"Scriabin isnt the sort of composer whom youd regard as your daily bread, but is a heavy liqueur on which you can get drunk periodically, a poetical drug, a crystal thats easily broken."
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"Scriabin always said that everything within his later compositions was strictly according to law. He said that he could prove this fact. However, everything seemed to conspire against his giving a demonstration. One day he invited Taneyev and I to his apartment so he could explain his theories of composition. We arrived and he dilly-dallied for a long time. Finally, he said he had a headache and would explain it all another day. That another day never came."
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