Scriabin's Bridge

Essay
Magazine
Music

Originally published in the February 2011 issue of Perfect Sound Forever magazine.

Nineteenth-century Russian music was recklessly splattered over a canvas of nationalism, revolutionism, and progressivism. The brush was passed along from Mikhail Glinka, the first notable Russian classical composer, to "The Mighty Five," comprising Balakirev, Cui, Mussorgsky, Borodin, and ringleader Rimsky-Korsakoff. This group would complete the blatantly anti-European brushstrokes of Slavic music. The leftover drippings would become the synesthetic color-tones of Alexander Scriabin's compositional style.

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