Scriabin: Piano Sonata No. 8, Op. 66
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- Composer: Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915)
- Editor: Valentina Rubcova
- Fingering: Michael Schneidt
- Instrumentation: Piano
- Work: Piano Sonata No. 8, Op. 66
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- Size: 9.3 x 12.2 inches
- Pages: 32
- Urtext / Critical Edition
Description
In his last years, Scriabin realized a noble and great idea. Inspired by his study of theosophical writings, he dreamed of joining music, poetry, mime, architecture, light, color and even aromas to create a "Gesamtkunstwerk," and thus elevate human beings to a higher level of consciousness. This "Mysterium" was never completed, but his late piano sonatas-conceived as preliminary studies-enable us to see what moved Scriabin. He spent a particularly long time working on his eighth sonata and proofread it intensively; but later quite a few mistakes still found their way into it. Thanks to the autograph and the first edition, ambiguous passages have now been cleared up and corrected in Henle's Urtext edition.
Scriabin: Piano Sonata No. 8, Op. 66
