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Russian composer '''Alexander Scriabin''' (sometimes transliterated as "Aleksandr Skryabin")(1872-1915) is today remembered mostly for his voluminous output for the [[piano]]. Trained as a pianist under the severe eye of Nikolai Zverev, who also taught [[Sergei Rachmaninoff]], Scriabin also attended the Moscow Conservatory, where he studied piano and composition, the latter primarily with Anton Arensky.

Russian composer '''Alexander Scriabin''' (sometimes transliterated as "Aleksandr Skryabin")(1872-1915) is today remembered mostly for his voluminous output for the [[piano]]. Trained as a pianist under the severe eye of Nikolai Zverev, who also taught [[Sergei Rachmaninoff]], Scriabin also attended the Moscow Conservatory, where he studied piano and composition, the latter primarily with Anton Arensky.

His musical style began in the early works showing an affinity with the piano works of [[Chopin]], but he soon developed a very complex musical language based on complex [[chord]]s. Scriabin was also influenced by Theosophy, a Russian [[mysticism|mystical]] philosophy. He also, like [[Olivier Messiaen]], claimed to suffer from [[synesthesia]], a psychological condition where the brain links the perception of sight and sound. His music therefore preoccupies itself with unusual tone colors and mysterious textures - he even projected a major work entitled ''Mysterium'', never realized, which would have employed all the senses, and was to take place at the foot of the [[Himalayas]].

His musical style began in the early works showing an affinity with the piano works of [[Chopin]], but he soon developed a very complex musical language based on complex [[chord]]s. Scriabin was also influenced by Theosophy, a Russian [[mysticism|mystical]] philosophy. Like the French composer [[Olivier Messiaen]], Scriabin also claimed to suffer from [[synesthesia]], a psychological condition where the brain links the perception of sight and sound. His music therefore preoccupies itself with unusual tone colors and mysterious textures - he even projected a major work entitled ''Mysterium'', never realized, which would have employed all the senses, and was to take place at the foot of the [[Himalayas]].

His important works include numerous short pieces for piano, ten piano sonatas, of which the fifth and ninth are most often played, and five symphonc works. One of them, entitled ''Prometheus: Poem of Fire'', includes a part for "color organ," an instrument purely from Scriabin's imagination, which projects color on a screen instead of sound.

His important works include numerous short pieces for piano, ten piano sonatas, of which the fifth and ninth are most often played, and five symphonc works. One of them, entitled ''Prometheus: Poem of Fire'', includes a part for "color organ," an instrument purely from Scriabin's imagination, which projects color on a screen instead of sound.