This violent and erotic work was the second of Scriabin’s sonatas to be written in no key signature and the first to be written in a single movement, a format that he would retain for the rest of his life. The sonata was written in less than a week. His wife Tatiana wrote to a friend on December 8,...
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Piano Sonata No. 5, Op. 53 was written by Alexander Scriabin.
Alexander Scriabin released Piano Sonata No. 5, Op. 53 on Wed Nov 18 1908.
In late December 1907, Scriabin wrote a letter describing the work’s imminent completion:
Today I have almost finished my 5th Sonata. It is a big poem for piano and I deem it the best composition I have ever written. I do not know by what miracle I accomplished it
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