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Scriabin entered a wager with his friend, M.P. Belaieff that by April 1896 he could compose a cycle of forty-eight preludes twice traversing the major and minor keys. Although he had already completed forty-six of the pieces he distanced himself from this project and divided the preludes over several
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Scriabin did not write the 24 preludes chronologically, but instead in different places over the course of eight years. Prelude No. 4 was written in Moscow in 1888, followed by No. 6 in 1889 in Kiev. No. 10 was written in 1893–4 in Moscow, and No. 14 in 1895 in
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Evgeniia Nikolaevna Rudakova, A. I. KandinskiÄ (1984).
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1317:Prelude in A minor, Op. 51, No. 2
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1140:Prometheus: The Poem of Fire
437:. Here Scriabin's virtuosic
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826:. University of Texas.
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1343:Fantaisie in B minor
1091:List of compositions
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233:: They also covered
1285:24 Preludes, Op. 11
1133:The Poem of Ecstasy
1046:Stanford University
839:24 Preludes Opus 11
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221:Structural analysis
191:24 Preludes, Op. 11
1421:Synesthesia in art
1396:Clavier à lumières
1368:Named for Scriabin
1348:Nocturne in A-flat
1082:Alexander Scriabin
841:. G. Henle Verlag.
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656:Prelude in
654:Scriabin's
633:arpeggiated
545:Prelude in
543:Scriabin's
484:Prelude in
482:Scriabin's
401:No. 21 in B
389:No. 19 in E
377:No. 17 in A
368:No. 16 in B
359:No. 15 in D
350:No. 14 in E
341:No. 13 in G
332:No. 12 in G
318:No. 10 in C
314:– Andantino
1484:Categories
1237:Black Mass
1223:White Mass
975:0739032879
872:0486229181
797:References
611:crescendos
441:assembles
302:No. 8 in F
179:media help
1426:Theosophy
1147:Mysterium
723:tessitura
713:con anima
554:Andantino
326:– Andante
1448:Category
1278:Preludes
1244:No. 10 (
1157:Concerto
942:11735082
923:Scriabin
859:(1954).
751:♯
741:♯
738:minor, C
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195:preludes
1235:No. 9 (
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1180:Sonatas
1106:RĂŞverie
1037:YouTube
748:final C
684:E major
680:tritone
671:Andante
600:triplet
547:E major
504:tenutos
500:Prelude
496:ballade
290:– Lento
207:Germany
203:Leipzig
1460:Portal
1257:Études
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1216:No. 6
1211:No. 5
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1201:No. 3
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619:pedal
565:minor
532:Lento
462:tempo
458:tonic
324:minor
997:ISBN
970:ISBN
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