Alexander Scriabin was a Russian composer and pianist active from the late Romantic into the early modernist period, based mainly in Moscow with extended stays in Geneva, Lausanne, Brussels, and Paris. He concentrated almost exclusively on piano and orchestral music, producing ten piano sonatas, numerous preludes and études, and orchestral works such as The Poem of Ecstasy and Prometheus: The Poem of Fire, alongside the unfinished Mysterium, a planned multimedia work of visionary scope. He died in Moscow in April 1915 at age 43 after a minor lip infection developed into a carbuncle and fatal blood poisoning.

Scriabin evolved from a Chopin-influenced Romantic idiom into a highly personal, increasingly dissonant harmonic language developed independently of Schoenberg, exploring mystical and synesthetic ideas that made him one of the most distinctive voices of early 20th-century music. His reputation dipped in the decades following his death but underwent a substantial rehabilitation from the 1970s onward, and his innovative harmony influenced composers such as Nikolai Roslavets and Karol Szymanowski.

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