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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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Belyayev divided the preludes into four parts of six preludes each.
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Evgeniia Nikolaevna Rudakova, A. I. KandinskiÄ (1984).
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pace. Despite its key, the left hand voice often plays
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found the RCA/Victor issue "Horowitz Plays Scriabin."
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volumes and opus numbers (op. 11, 13, 15, 16 and 17).
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885:The Performing Style of Alexander Scriabin
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1258:Étude in D-sharp minor, Op. 8, No. 12
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375:No. 18 in F minor – Allegro agitato
166:Problems playing these files? See
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1306:Prelude in A minor, Op. 51, No. 2
1301:Prelude in F major, Op. 49, No. 2
671:harmonies, split up by a lyrical
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467:Prelude in E minor, Op. 11, No. 4
420:Prelude in C major, Op. 11, No. 1
411:Prelude in C major, Op. 11, No. 1
318:No. 11 in B major – Allegro assai
144:No. 10 in C-sharp minor – Andante
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60:No. 2 in A minor – Allegretto
1129:Prometheus: The Poem of Fire
426:. Here Scriabin's virtuosic
123:No. 9 in E major – Andantino
978:Adamenko, Victoria (2007).
826:Rubcova, Valentina (2006).
224:all 24 major and minor keys
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405:No. 24 in D minor – Presto
285:No. 6 in B minor – Allegro
102:No. 6 in B minor – Allegro
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1111:Symphony No. 3 in C minor
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1101:Symphony No. 1 in E major
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51:Welte-Mignon player piano
35:No. 1 in C major – Vivace
951:Hinson, Maurice (2003).
882:Leikin, Anatole (2011).
402:No. 23 in F major – Vivo
81:No. 4 in E minor – Lento
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806:Hwa-Young, Lee (2006).
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273:No. 3 in G major – Vivo
1316:Prelude, Op. 74, No. 2
815:. University of Texas.
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1332:Fantaisie in B minor
1080:List of compositions
714:scope of the piano.
477:minor, Op. 11, No. 4
222:: They also covered
1274:24 Preludes, Op. 11
1122:The Poem of Ecstasy
1035:Stanford University
828:24 Preludes Opus 11
595:in the right hand.
514:(15–19), and
220:24 Preludes, Op. 28
210:Structural analysis
180:24 Preludes, Op. 11
1410:Synesthesia in art
1385:Clavier à lumières
1357:Named for Scriabin
1337:Nocturne in A-flat
1071:Alexander Scriabin
830:. G. Henle Verlag.
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363:minor – Misterioso
251:major, No. 16 in B
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239:minor, No. 14 in E
176:Alexander Scriabin
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1162:Piano music
735:arpeggiated
694:minor and F
645:Prelude in
643:Scriabin's
622:arpeggiated
534:Prelude in
532:Scriabin's
473:Prelude in
471:Scriabin's
390:No. 21 in B
378:No. 19 in E
366:No. 17 in A
357:No. 16 in B
348:No. 15 in D
339:No. 14 in E
330:No. 13 in G
321:No. 12 in G
307:No. 10 in C
303:– Andantino
1473:Categories
1226:Black Mass
1212:White Mass
964:0739032879
861:0486229181
786:References
600:crescendos
430:assembles
291:No. 8 in F
168:media help
1415:Theosophy
1136:Mysterium
712:tessitura
702:con anima
543:Andantino
315:– Andante
1437:Category
1267:Preludes
1233:No. 10 (
1146:Concerto
931:11735082
912:Scriabin
848:(1954).
740:♯
730:♯
727:minor, C
724:♯
697:♯
691:♯
685:♯
650:♯
613:♯
584:♯
562:♯
551:♯
436:diatonic
432:clusters
393:♭
381:♭
369:♭
360:♭
351:♭
342:♭
333:♭
324:♯
310:♯
294:♯
254:♭
248:♭
242:♭
236:♯
184:preludes
1224:No. 9 (
1210:No. 7 (
1181:No. 2 (
1169:Sonatas
1095:RĂŞverie
1026:YouTube
737:final C
673:E major
669:tritone
660:Andante
589:triplet
536:E major
493:tenutos
489:Prelude
485:ballade
279:– Lento
196:Germany
192:Leipzig
1449:Portal
1246:Études
1235:Insect
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512:bridge
481:Moscow
460:Vivace
424:Moscow
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1325:Other
1219:No. 8
1205:No. 6
1200:No. 5
1195:No. 4
1190:No. 3
1176:No. 1
813:(PDF)
758:Notes
653:minor
608:pedal
554:minor
521:Lento
451:tempo
447:tonic
313:minor
986:ISBN
959:ISBN
927:OCLC
917:ISBN
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856:ISBN
721:of F
602:and
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516:coda
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