This is a list of compositions by Alexander Scriabin. The list is categorized by Genre, with Piano works organized by style of piece. The list can be sorted by Opus number and WoO number and Anh number, by clicking on the "Opus" header of the table. Sorted in this Opus/WoO/Anh order, duplicate entries are moved to the bottom of the list with the unused genre headers. The majority of Scriabin's works have opus numbers. His work can be divided into three periods, based on increasing atonality: early, 1883–1902 ; middle, 1903–1909 ; and late, 1910–1915. The development of Scriabin's style can be traced in his ten published sonatas for piano. The first four are in the Romantic style. Initially the music is reminiscent of Chopin, but Scriabin's unique voice, present from the beginning, becomes fully present even in these early pieces. With the fourth and fifth sonatas, Scriabin explored more complex, chromatic harmonies. Each of the following sonatas are often highly dissonant and have a new form of tonality that some describe as atonal and others describe as simply different from conventional tonality. Vers la flamme was intended to be the eleventh sonata, but he was forced to publish it early due to financial concerns. Most of Scriabin's sonatas consist of only a single movement; the first and third are the only ones with multiple movements typical of the sonata form.
reconstructed by Daniel Bosshard 1987 as 2nd mvt. of "Andante and Scherzo" with Anh 20 possibly intended as a movement of a symphony; completed by Alexander Gauk 1949 as "Symphonic Poem in D minor", recorded by Boris Demchenko, released Melodiya LP 1972, CD 1993; also arranged for piano solo by Leonid Sabaneyev as Poème published 1926 as No. 2 of 2 Oeuvres posthumes with his piano solo arrangement of Fantaisie, WoO 18; also arranged for piano solo by Nikolai Zhilyayev published 1928 reconstructed by Daniel Bosshard 1987 as 1st mvt. of "Andante and Scherzo" with Anh 18
Piano works
Album Leaves
Dances
Etudes
published 1947
Fantasies
intended for piano & orchestra, the 2nd piano part is clearly an orchestral reduction, while the 1st piano is clearly the soloist; however, it is not clear if this is the original working version to be later orchestrated, or a reduction from a now-lost orchestral score; if the latter, the lost orchestral score might be the version composed in 1889; 2nd piano part orchestrated by G. Zinger, recorded by Igor Zhukov Mikhail Yurovsky, released Melodiya LP 1972, CD 1993; 2nd piano part orchestrated by Gennady Rozhdestvensky, recorded 1998 Rozhdestvensky Viktoria Postnikova, released Chandos 1999; rearranged by Ethel Bartlett & Rae Robertson that redistributes the 2 piano parts more equally between them, published 1940, various recordings; also arranged for piano solo by Leonid Sabaneyev published 1926 as No. 1 of 2 Oeuvres posthumes with his piano solo arrangement of "Symphonic Allegro", WoO 24
Fugues
Impromptus
Mazurkas
Morceaux
Nocturnes
Poems
Preludes
Scherzos
Sonatas
published 1940
Waltzes
Miscellaneous
some themes used later in Prélude, Op. 11 No. 4 published 1997
Other works
published 1924 completed from sketches by Alexander Nemtin c.1971 as an Oratorio for soprano, baritone, and orchestra, premiered c.1971, recorded c.1971 privately by Nemtin unreleased published 1899 unfinished, fragments of "Prefatory Act" in manuscript; "Prefatory Action" completed from sketches by Alexander Nemtin as "Preparation for the Final Mystery" in 3 parts: Part 1 "Universe" 1970–72 Part 2 "Mankind" 1976–80 Part 3 "Transfiguration" 1996; Part 1 recorded 1973 Kiril Kondrashin, released LP 1973, All 3 parts premiered/recorded 1996 Vladimir Ashkenazy, released CD 2000
