Scriabin Sonata op. 23 #3, 1st movement

Scriabin's 3rd piano sonata was written in 1898, around the time of his first (failed) marriage's honeymoon to Vera Issakovich. While he took fanciful flights to the stars and moons, Vera stayed tight-fisted, tight-minded, unable to leave the earth with Scriabin. Perhaps it is from this struggle of having married the wrong woman that this sonata came to fruition.
"[The first movement shows] the soul, free and wild, thrown into the whirlpool of suffering and strife.
[The second movement offers an] apparent momentary and illusory respite; tired from suffering the soul wants to forget, wants to sing and flourish, in spite of everything. But the light rhythm, the fragrant harmonies are just a cover through which gleams the restless and languishing soul.
[The third movement can be compared to] a sea of feelings, tender and sorrowful: love, sorrow, vague desires, inexplicable thoughts, illusions of a delicate dream.
[The finale is described by Scriabin] From the depth of being rises the fearsome voice of creative man whose victorious song resounds triumphantly. But too weak yet to reach the acme he plunges, temporarily defeated, into the abyss of non being."
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