Piano Sonata No. 5 (Scriabin)

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Alexander Scriabin around 1900

The one-movement 5th Piano Sonata op. 53 by the Russian composer and pianist Alexander Scriabin (1872–1915) was composed in 1907.

Emergence

The 5th Piano Sonata op.53 was composed at the end of 1907, despite the lower number of opus, shortly after the orchestral work Le Poème de l'Extase op.54 had been completed. The inner connection between the two works is clear from the fact that Scriabin added the musical text of the sonata (which he initially also referred to as “Poem”) was preceded by a motto that comes from the extensive poem Le Poème de l'Extase , which was written in close connection with his op. In the translation of the French original it reads:

I call you to life
Hidden Aspirations!
Your in dark
Depths of the creative
Mind lost,
You fearful germs of life,
I bring you boldness.

Since Scriabin was of the opinion that his previous main publisher, the music publisher MP Belaieff , paid him too low fees, the 5th Sonata was self-published in addition to other piano pieces of this time (but he soon came back from this due to the high expenditure and financial losses Procedure from). The first performance of the 5th piano sonata took place on November 18, 1908 in Moscow by the pianist Mark Meitschik .

characterization

The one-movement sonata called Allegro. Impetuoso. Con Stravaganza lasts about 11 to 12 minutes.

The 471-bar work is based on an expanded sonata form . The usual sequence (exposition, development, recapitulation) is preceded by a prologue with its own thematic material, which is also taken up in the development. The first prologue motif, a trill configuration that begins in a lower register and that leaps up to the piano treble in increasing accelerando , again concludes the work.

The self-confident gesture of the sonata with call-like and signal-like motifs - there are also lyrical, longing ( languido ) passages - is underlined by performance terms such as “imperioso” , “quasi trombe imperioso” , “presto giocoso” or “estatico” . It is also the last of Scriabin's ten (numbered) piano sonatas, the key of which (F sharp major) can still be guessed from the accidentals.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alexander Scriabin: Le Poème de l'Extase (poetry). Übers. Ernst Moritz Arndt. Russian Propylaea, Vol. 6. Geneva 1906, Moscow 1919.

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