[Rarebooks] FS: Bowers' Scriabin

[Karen Howell]

Offered today:

BOWERS, Faubion (1917-1999). 

Scriabin: A Biography of the Russian Composer, 1871-1915. 

Tokyo and Palo Alto:  Kodansha International Ltd., 1969. 

2 volumes.  8vo.  8 1/2 x 6 inches.  342, 304 pp.  Photographic frontispiece in each volume, 21 plates in Vol. I, 14 plates in Vol. II, selected discography, catalog of works, index; text clean, unmarked.  Red cloth, gilt titling on spine; bindings square and tight, Vol. I with a few stains on the cloth, upper back edge water stained and rubbed, Vol. II with minor shelf wear, gilt titling of both volumes lightly worn.  Housed in a slipcase, pictorial paper over boards, with an illustration of a music manuscript; rubbed especially at edges, some paper lacking, back strip soiled.  Will make a Good working copy or store stock. 

$ 40

Second Printing.  Alexander Nikolayevich Scriabin (1872-1915) was a Russian composer and pianist.  His early work is characterized by a lyrical and idiosyncratic tonal language influenced by Frederic Chopin.  Later in his career, independently of Arnold Schoenberg, Scriabin developed a substantially atonal and much more dissonant musical system, to express his interest in mysticism.  Scriabin was influenced by synesthesis, and associated colors with the various harmonic tones of his atonal scale, while his color-coded circle of fifths was also influenced by theosophy.  His is considered by some to be the main Russian Symbolist composer. 

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