MusicaModerna Scriabin - Links with Other Composers
- Arnold Schönberg (1874 - 1951) declared himself “particularly impressed” when he first heard Promethée Op.60.
- SergueÏ Prokofiev (1891 - 1953) dedicated his Symphonic Piece “Dreams” Op.6 to Scriabin, testimony of a profound admiration. They both are the only Russian composers who showed a manifest interest in the Piano Sonata form in the Early Modern Era.
- Sergueï Rachmaninoff (1873 - 1943) was a childhood college of Scriabin, both studied with the same teacher (Zverev). Although they both were always put into competition by the critics (both composing mostly solo and very virtuosic piano music…), such animosity can’t be observed in their actual relation and they both showed respect and distanced friendship trough their whole life. At the death of Scriabin, Rachmaninoff went on a tour to conduct his works and raise funds for his widow and children's.
- Claude Debussy (1862 - 1918) probably learned about the work of Scriabin when he traveled to Russia in 1913, while Scriabin probably meet Debussy earlier in the Parisian salons that they were both taking part of. However, no official sources can attest of a proper meeting.
- Olivier Messian (1908 - 1992) never mentioned Scriabin as one of his inspirations. However, even if indirectly, his quartal and octophonic harmonies, sense of mystery, use of trills and “weightless” atmosphere in multiple pieces indicates an heritage from Scriabin musical discoveries.
- Manfred Kelkel (1929 - 1999) was a biographer of Scriabin and composer. He composed in his memory a “Tombeau de Scriabine”. Sabaneyev, a colleague of Scriabin, also composed a sonata “In Memory of Scriabin”, and transposed Promethée for the piano.
- Scriabin himself wasn’t particularly eloquent about his contemporaries : he called Prokofiev “trash”, Rachmaninoff music a “boiled ham”, and Stravinsky “the absolute minimum of creativity”, and he never took part in the Scandale of the Rite of Spring.
