Alexander Scriabin:
Innovation and controversy seem to follow his highly expressive works, at times composed of subtle dissonance whilst maintaining an idiosyncratic melody to both his symphonic and piano compositions. Achieving simplistic gestures amidst highly rhythmic figures, that every note changes and as in life there is constant variety, which can be interpreted on different levels. Each time a phrase rises make a crescendo and when it falls a diminuendo the most obvious however Scriabin writes for the dynamic difference of each note, and then adjusts these differences to the entirety of the work. Pushing classical music beyond the realm of stage and sound Scriabin, as a persons with synesthesia, began to assert color along with emotional values to each note, i.e the color organ, performed once by the NY Philharmonic in a 1915 showing of Prometheus (The Poem of Fire). Along with color organ is the color wheel and the color keyboard both based on a Circle of Fifths theory.
Prometheus is one of 3 poems which have greatly inspired and in due time be brought to life:
Prometheus "the poem of fire"
The Poem of Ecstasy, whose lengthy poem ends with "I am a moment illuminating eternity....I am affirmation...I am ecstasy."
Mysterium "his unrealized magnum opus... was to have been a grand week-long performance including music, scent, dance, and light in the foothills of the Himalayas that was to bring about the dissolution of the world in bliss." wikipedia
* highly recommend Stokowski's version
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