MusicaModerna Scriabin - Philosophy
- Miniaturism : Building upon Chopin’s heritage, Scriabin promote a miniaturist view of music with complete sonatas in a single movement in 10 min, etudes of less than 1 min... The most developed genre of his musical production is the Preludes : the musical definition of aphorism. Despite a total of almost 200 works for the piano, his whole pianistic production don’t exceed 10 hours (which gives an average lenght of 3min for each works).
- Deification : Scriabin art is a liturgy, who can guide humanity, and also individuals : “The excitation of my real self by my fantasmed self” (Novalis, (1771 - 1801), the romantic idea of creating real from the dream, and the deification of individuals.
- Merging : the three essential components of music (Melody, Rhythms, Harmony) are slowly merged in his production, all becoming interlinked. This amalgam beings with the Sonata No.3.
- Music as an Ideal : The extra-musical is serving the music, never the contrary (music is the finale and ultimate product, “theory can’t describe magic” ). Most of his descriptive text were written after the composition, or just as preliminary research.
- Music as an essence : music permit to connect to all the vibrations, the analogies, the correspondences of the cosmos. Music is total plenitude, serenity, reconnection to the universal. Scriabin defended an international music and shown little to no interest in national school (he even admitted that Chopin closed himself too much on the Polish heritage).
- Sexuality : Music is inherently sexual. A voluptuous game of tension, desires, longing, quest of altered states analogically to the state during an orgasm, the ecstasy (transcendence of the body and senses analogue to transcendence of the soul). Also the playfulness of it, the temptation (the devil figure…)
- Danses : Danse is as important as music, it drives to altered state, to ecstasy. His production open (Valse Op.1) and almost close (2 Danses Op.73) with it, as well as being seemingly constant in his themes and rhythmic senses. The Mystery was suppose to end in a gigantic Bacchanal .
