Musical works created by Alexander Nikolayevich Scriabin are capable of evoking emotions of various kinds in listeners - joy, sadness, compassion. The reason for this perception is that the composer synthesized sound and light. For its time, this was a revolutionary decision.
Childhood
The life story of a non-standard personality, creator and innovator requires the use of grandiloquent words and comparisons. Without denying this approach, it is appropriate to present the biography of Alexander Nikolaevich Scriabin in simple and unambiguously understood expressions. The future composer was born on December 25, 1871. The family lived in Moscow. My father made a career in the diplomatic service. Mother graduated from the course of the St. Petersburg Conservatory and gave concerts, playing the piano. A year after the birth of her son, at the age of 23, she suddenly died of consumption.
The child remained in the care of his grandmother and aunt from the father's side. Aunt, Lyubov Aleksandrovna Scriabin, inspired him to play the piano. Shura, as he was called in the home circle, easily learned all the lessons and exercises that his aunt taught him. At the age of five, the boy already mastered the technical fundamentals of playing the instrument. Possessing perfect pitch, he easily reproduced the melodies he heard in passing. To the great delight of his family, he began to compose musical sketches, poetry and even tragedies.
According to the traditions existing in the noble environment, Alexander, upon reaching ten years of age, was sent to study in a cadet corps. While receiving his primary education, Scriabin did not leave musical studies. Thanks to perseverance and talent, a graduate of the cadet corps enters the Moscow Conservatory in two areas - piano and composition. Here he had his first serious conflict with the composition teacher. Scriabin received a diploma on the successful completion of his studies only as a pianist.
Creative way
Love for music, performance and composition, leads Alexander Scriabin through life as a guiding star. Those skills of composition that are not received within the walls of the conservatory, the young composer makes up for in the classroom with Sergei Taneyev and Anton Arensky. Performances in national teams and solo concerts arouse the first, still timid interest of the public and critics. Family friends and wealthy fans help organize a European tour in 1896. Scriabin returns from the trip inspired and famous. A year later, he creates a family with pianist Vera Isakovich. The husband and wife spent their honeymoon, or rather the winter, in France.
However, the composer's personal life remains shaky. Scriabin completely occupies work on new works and concert activity. He pays little attention to how his family lives, in which two out of four children have died. In 1903, Alexander Nikolaevich decides to part with his wife and goes to his new lover Tatyana Schlozer. You can make a film about the relationship in the existing triangle, but apparently the time has not come yet. The first wife did not give Scriabin a divorce. Three children born into a new family were recorded in the mother's surname.
After a long stay in Italy and Switzerland, the Scriabin family returned to Moscow, where the composer lived for the last six years. It was during this period that he wrote his world-famous mystery "Prometheus". Suffice it to say about the quality of this work that one part of the audience accepted the master's creation with enthusiasm, the other - extremely skeptical. Alexander Nikolaevich Scriabin died suddenly in Moscow from blood poisoning in the spring of 1915.
