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Scriabin, Alexander Nikolayevich: Piano Sonata no. 5 op. 53

sheet music

Op. 121
Setting: Piano
Weight: 0.175 kg
Publisher: G. Henle Verlag
Item number: HN1111
Other reference: HN 1111
ISMN: 9790201811116
A great poem for the piano was how Scriabin described his fifth piano sonata. It was indeed composed at the same time as his great poem for orchestra ''Le Poeme de l’extase'', and both works are based on the same literary programme. Scriabin spent a long time honing the text, which represents his philosophic idea of the development of the world in poetic form, until its publication in a separate volume in 1906. About a year later Scriabin announced that he had completed his fifth sonata, stating
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