L’amour des âmes, Jean Deville (1900)

L’amour des âmes, Jean Deville (1900)

Initiating a new musical genre, Scriabin opens his Poems collection with this set of two contrasting pieces:

No.1 In F# Major No.2 In D Major

*Poems (*alongside Preludes) will become new fields of experimentation for Scriabin, pushing toward greater modernism and increasingly **abstract lyricism. These pieces anticipate many of the discoveries that would later be expanded upon in the revolutionary Sonatas No. 4 and No. 5.

The first, melismatic and utterly graceful, echoes Chopin’s Nocturne Op. 15 in the same luminous key of F♯ Major. It is in complete opposition to the Russian and tempestuous march of the second poem, harmonically unstable and reminiscent of Liszt and Rachmaninoff at their most agitated state.

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