You can divide Scriabin’s career into two halves. Before about 1900 he was a latter-day Russian Chopin, writing the sort of piano pieces that Chopin might have written had he lived longer; after that, ...

Amid the tumult of war in 1914, Russian religious philosopher Nikolai Berdiaev insisted that, of all contemporary artists, only the composer Aleksandr Scriabin offered a brighter "prophecy" of a "new ...