Prometheus scriabin kandinsky biography
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Prometheus: The Poem of Fire
Tone poem by Alexander Scriabin
Prometheus: The Poem of Fire, Op. 60 (1910), is a tone poem by the RussiancomposerAlexander Scriabin for piano, orchestra, optional choir, and clavier à lumières or "Chromola" (a color organ invented by Preston Millar, in fact rarely featured in performances of the piece, including those during Scriabin's lifetime).
Prometheus is only loosely based on the myth of Prometheus.
Prometheus scriabin kandinsky biography
It premiered in Moscow on 2 March 1911. A typical performance lasts about 20 minutes.
Structure
The music is complex and triadic only in an idiosyncratic sense, based almost entirely around various inversions and transpositions of Scriabin's matrix sonority: A D♯ G C♯ F♯ B.
Sabaneyev referred to this chord, which opens the work in an eerily static fashion, as the "chord of Prometheus". It has subsequently become known as the "mystic chord". But after unrelieved dissonance throughout, the symphonic poem ends with a