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In Reply to: RE: Scriabin's "Le poeme de l'extase" (Poem of Ecstasy). . . with choral parts??? posted by sser2 on February 17, 2021 at 20:39:14:
I think that's a matter of opinion! ;-)
In Faubion Bower's biography, he quotes Scriabin's remark that he could not compose unless he was in the state of extreme sexual excitation (!). Furthermore, if you just look at some of the titles of his piano pieces, it becomes clear what the inspiration is. As Yevgeni Sudbin writes in the booklet notes for one of his own recordings of Scriabin's piano music:Scriabin was also the first to introduce sex into his music, and quite explicitly too.But whether one thinks there is sex in Scriabin's music or not, I do agree with you that he is indeed a "super composer".
While acknowledging Brahms' romanticism and Wagner's gardens of worldly tempta -
tions, Scriabin went several steps further, when he wrote music entitled Desire, Danced
Caress, Sensual Delights and, above all, the Poem of Ecstasy. Some of the passages from
the accompanying poem leave little to the imagination and are too explicit to mention (as
is indeed the music, but even censorship has a limit).
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Follow Ups
- "Poem of Extasy doesn't have anything to do with sex" - Chris from Lafayette 01:58:18 02/18/21 (7)
- RE: "Poem of Extasy doesn't have anything to do with sex" - sser2 16:07:47 02/18/21 (6)
- Ex-stasy - sser2 17:01:55 02/18/21 (5)
- I don't deny that Scriabin adhered to a philosophy, but (as I mentioned in my previous post). . . - Chris from Lafayette 01:26:30 02/19/21 (4)
- Ascetic? - sser2 15:52:15 02/19/21 (1)
- I guess I don't read that Wikipedia article the same way you do - Chris from Lafayette 17:26:36 02/19/21 (0)
- Scriabin, the Sex Pistol? nt - tinear 08:38:30 02/19/21 (1)
- Indeed... nt - sser2 16:13:07 02/19/21 (0)