MusicaModerna Scriabin - Links with Other Artists
- Kandinsky (1866 - 1944, Russian and German painter) loved Scriabin work, especially because they were both looking for an “Total Art” mixing all the artforms in an unified being, with Kandinsky criticizing Wagner for “having limited himself only to music and poetry”. Kandinsky also had synesthesia, and stayed grandly inspired by music his whole life (some of his paintings are named “composition” ).
- Boris Pasternak (1890 - 1960, Russian writer), famously known for his book Docteur Jivago later adapted at the cinema, heard Scriabin in 1903 composing the Symphonie No.3 on a piano. He described a “magical, etheral” sound, and later on composed his own Sonata In B minor (1909) under Scriabin support. His father Leonide Pasternak also drew sketches of Scriabin himself.
- Scriabin always was greatly inspired by others artforms, and studied most of the occidental philosophy (Nietzsche, Kant..) and painters (Delville…). Synesthesia is a common field of research amongst modernism (Baudelaire “Correspondances”, Rimbault “Voyelles”, Debussy “Les sons et les parfums” )
