Mazurkas, Poemes, Impromptus and Other Pieces for Piano (Dover Music for Piano) [Paperback]

Alexander Scriabin (Author), Classical Piano Sheet Music (Author)

Book Description

Series: Dover Music for Piano | Publication Date: March 1, 1991

This unique volume of Alexander Scriabin's piano music combines all of the Russian composer's widely admired Poèmes, which exude the richness and complexity of his later style, with all of the earlier, more Chopinesque Mazurkas and Impromptus. Nearly 100 piano works of varying length and difficulty, reprinted from authoritative Russian editions, represent the full span of Scriabin's musical life.

Product Details

• Paperback: 336 pages
• Publisher: Dover Publications; New edition edition (March 1, 1991)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0486265552
• ISBN-13: 978-0486265551
• Product Dimensions: 12 x 9 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,130,507 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Overlooked composer Scriabin's musical thoughts in print!!, April 3, 1997

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This review is from: Mazurkas, Poemes, Impromptus and Other Pieces for Piano (Dover Music for Piano) (Paperback)

This collection of mostly unrelated works by AlexanderNicolyavich Scriaban (1872-1915) is most undoubtedly the crown jewelof Twentieth-Century piano music; yet it is almost totally overlooked historically as well as musically. It represents not his ordered compositions, as do his preludes and etudes, but rather his sporadic, sometimes psychotic thoughts; it is a veritable musical diary of the very bizarre and mystical life of the great Russian enigma. It belongs on the shelf of any serious music student, especially those of Russian music, for in this myriad of masterworks are the very core of the underappreciated and often entirely overlooked Alexander N. Scriabin.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars .....as well., September 12, 2000

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Robin Harlow (Makawao, Hi United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Mazurkas, Poemes, Impromptus and Other Pieces for Piano (Dover Music for Piano) (Paperback)

What the above review failed to mention is that the "Muzurkas, Poems, and Impromptues" book contains all of Scriabin's piano music excepting that which is contained in the "Preludes and Etudes" and the "Piano Sonata's" books. All three of these books are published by Dover and are not altered to death buy rotten editors. Comprehensive editions of composer's works are very valuable and often a huge oversight in the unusually chopy realm of sheet music. The book is also made as good as paperbacks get.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Some of the most gorgeous works in the piano repertoire, October 3, 2002

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Joanna Daneman (Middletown, DE USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Mazurkas, Poemes, Impromptus and Other Pieces for Piano (Dover Music for Piano) (Paperback)

Dover publishes complete works of many composers, and they did pianists a huge favor by compiling the works of Scriabin into several volumes of music. Scriabin, a "bridge" composer between the 19th and 20th Century, composed romantic yet modernistic works sometimes reminiscent of Chopin. His later work was far more dense and individualistic. Unfortunately, he died in his 40's, but, like the short-lived Schubert,he left a considerable volume of works for the piano. The other Dover volumes are the Sonatas and the Preludes and Etudes. Logically, they put other minor works (nocturnes, dances, etc) into this volume.

If you are a skilled pianist, try the Op. 28 Fantasie. This work, sadly, is rarely recorded but is one of the most incredibly gorgeous things ever written for piano. The only other copy of this I own is in a Hungarian edition not available in the US, so rejoice if you play piano.

Dover prints music that is easy to read and the editing is usually blameless. This book is no exception. Highly recommended for serious piano students.