![]() The self-absorption and off-putting egocentricity that so fueled Scriabin’s creativity-in a word, his messiah complex-make him an easy target for our derision. ![]() Both stem from his utterly unique artistic identity: the ravishing music that manifests that identity has won fervent admirers, just as the persona behind the music has drawn contempt. In every sense one of Western music history’s singular figures, the Russian pianist and composer Alexander Scriabin has been, in equal measure, an object of cultish fascination and scorn.
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