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Prometheus, poem of fire : opus nr. 60 (1911) : a music and color composition /

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Alexander Scriabin spent the last years of his life in a frenzy of creativity. By this time he was entrenched in a mysticism which advocated the establishment of a utopian religion based on art. This new creed, he felt, would be ushered into a presently stagnant world through grandiose audio-visual...

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Main Author: Scriabin, Aleksandr Nikolayevich, 1872-1915 (Composer)
Corporate Authors: Groot Omroepkoor (Singer), Radio Filharmonisch Orkest Holland (Instrumentalist)
Other Authors: Alsema, Frank (Director), Visser, Jeroen (Director), Oattes, Bernard (Narrator), Toradze, Alexander (Instrumentalist), Gergiev, Valeriĭ, 1953- (Conductor)
Format: Video
Language:Undetermined
Language Notes:Preceding interviews in English, syllabic singing.
Published: Halle, Germany : Monarda Arts, 1998.
Series:Academic Video Online
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Scriabin, Aleksandr Nikolayevich, > 1872-1915. > Prométhée.
Prométhée (Scriabin, Aleksandr Nikolayevich)
Choruses, Secular (Mixed voices) with orchestra.
Chœurs profanes (Voix mixtes) acc. d'orchestre.
Choruses, Secular (Mixed voices) with orchestra
documentary film.
interviews.
Art music
Documentary films
Filmed performances
Interviews
Songs
Filmed performances.
Documentary films.
Interviews.
Songs.
Art music.
Spectacles filmés.
Documentaires.
Musique savante.
Online Access:Connect to this streaming video (Alexander Street Press)
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Summary:Alexander Scriabin spent the last years of his life in a frenzy of creativity. By this time he was entrenched in a mysticism which advocated the establishment of a utopian religion based on art. This new creed, he felt, would be ushered into a presently stagnant world through grandiose audio-visual works encompassing all the senses. His last complete 'symphonic' work, the complex and impassioned Prometheus, Poem of Fire (1911), is musically spectacular, but Scriabin wanted more. He added a score, in which notes were represented as colours, for a 'keyboard of light', a device he had helped design himself, to project colours into the concert space where his work was performed. He believed that "through music and colour, the human mind and soul can be lifted above merely physical sensations". Scriabin had the gift of synaesthesia, or colour hearing. He associated sounds with colours. For example, he saw F minor as blue, F major as red, D major as golden orange. It is likely that most of these associations were based on feeling, rather than on rationality. In Prometheus Scriabin tried to create for an audience a synaesthetic experience similar to his own.
Item Description:Title from title screen (viewed January 05, 2023).
Written in 1910.
Physical Description:1 online resource (49 minutes)
Playing Time:00:48:34