The Notebooks of Alexander Skryabin

This new source-book for the Russian composer Alexander Skryabin provides a full translation of his writings as published in Moscow in 1919, with supplementary texts and letters from the composer. Commentary by Simon Nicholls examines the sources of Skryabin's thought and its relation to aspects of his compositional techniques, and an outline biography relates Skryabin's work to his extraordinary short life.