Scriabin had been married to a young pianist, Vera Ivanovna Isaakovich, in August 1897. Having given the first performance of his Piano Concerto at Odessa, Scriabin and his wife went to Paris, where he started to work on the new sonata. Scriabin is said to have called the finished work "Gothic", evoking the impression of a ruined castle. Some years later however, he devised a different programme for this sonata entitled "States of the Soul":
Date of composition | 1898 (1897-1898) |
First published | 1898 |
Type | Sonata |
Tonality | F-sharp Minor |
Catalogue | Op. 23 |
Approx. duration | 20 minutes |
Instruments | Piano |
Autotranslations beta |
Alexandre Scriabine: Sonate pour piano n°3 en fa dièse mineur, Op. 23 Aleksandr Nikolaevič Skrjabin: Sonata per pianoforte n. 3 in fa diesis minore, Op. 23 Alexander Nikolajewitsch Skrjabin: Sonate Nr. 3 für Klavier fis-moll, Op. 23 |